Volume 29, Number 17 · November 4, 1982
Mission from Japan
By Irving Howe
The Samurai
by Shusaku Endo, translated by Van C. Gessel
Harper and Row, 272 pp., $12.95
As the merest beginner and very much a latecomer, I started recently to look into Japanese fiction. What I can report is fragmentary, a record of uncertainties, confusions, and probable mistakes such as many Western readers are likely to share upon encountering Japanese fiction.
Review, 2560 words
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