Peter Owen Modern Classic: Scandal (Paperback)

from technodiabla

While I found this book to be a little lighter than some of Endo's other novels, I enjoyed it immensely. Scandal is a later novel and Endo seems to have moved on from East vs. West panoramas to the conflicts with an individual's psyche--- good vs. evil. He captures the "mostly normal person but w...

from hemlokgang

I think this is a novel that took courage to write. The author, Susaku Endo, offers his own self-exploration up to the reader as a guide to accepting our own humanity, including the darkest aspects of self. His protagonist, Seguro, is an author at the pinnacle of his career, at which moment he is...

from William345

There's a wonderful moment in Vladimir Nabokov's Strong Opinions. It's part of a transcript from an interview conducted sometime in the mid-1970s.Q: Would you care to comment on how the Doppelgänger motif has been both used and abused from Poe, Hoffman, Andersen... Which Doppelgänger fictions wou...

from technodiabla

While I found this book to be a little lighter than some of Endo's other novels, I enjoyed it immensely. Scandal is a later novel and Endo seems to have moved on from East vs. West panoramas to the conflicts with an individual's psyche--- good vs. evil. He captures the "mostly normal person but w...

from hemlokgang

I think this is a novel that took courage to write. The author, Susaku Endo, offers his own self-exploration up to the reader as a guide to accepting our own humanity, including the darkest aspects of self. His protagonist, Seguro, is an author at the pinnacle of his career, at which moment he is...