Shusaku Endo
Shusaku Endo
Shūsaku Endō was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Roman Catholic. Together with Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, Shōtarō Yasuoka, Junzo Shono, Hiroyuki Agawa, Ayako Sono, and Shumon Miura, Endō is categorized as one of the "Third Generation", the third major group of writers who appeared after World War II...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 March 1923
CountryJapan
beautiful miserable christ
Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.
catholic
I became a Catholic against my will.
lying men sin
Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.
weakness
Every weakness contains within itself a strength.
heart character reflection
Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.
heart dark men
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.
song cities smell
The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.
japan christianity
Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.
life real thinking
A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.