by Shusaku Endo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340530849
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«Foreign Studies» is a volume of three narratives by Shusaku Endo, published by Sceptre in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Three narratives explore the clash between Japan and France. The first recreates the stay of a Japanese student in Paris in the 1950s, marked by alienation and illness. In the third narrative, a Japanese professor travels to France in the 1960s to research the Marquis de Sade and discovers an insurmountable cultural abyss.
Work translated from Japanese, originally published as «Ryūgaku» in 1965; this English edition appeared in 1990.
Readers of Japanese literature and contemporary fiction interested in the cultural disconnect between East and West.
Shūsaku Endō was a Japanese author who wrote from the perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Internationally, he is known for his 1966 historical fiction novel Silence, which was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by director Martin Scorsese. He was the laureate of several prestigious literary accolades, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Order of Culture, and was inducted into the Roman Catholic Order of St. Sylvester by Pope Paul VI.
