by René de Ceccatty · Motifs · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782268061047
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«L'Extrémité du monde: Relation de saint François Xavier, sur ses voyages et sur sa vie» is the novel by René de Ceccatty in paperback format.
The novel recreates St Francis Xavier's stay in Japan between 1549 and 1551 as an apocryphal first-person account. The author imagines the missionary's experience before a civilisation with religious convictions as solid as Xavier's own: cultural clash, doubt and the impossibility of ideologically reducing another culture lead him to silence and renunciation, in a spiritual journey to the ends of the known world.
The work is written in French and originally appeared in 1985; this Motifs edition is from 2007.
A read for those interested in literary fiction, the history of missions and spirituality.
René de Ceccatty is a French writer, translator and editor. He has written about 30 novels and biographies and translated works from Italian and Japanese. His 1994 work, Violette Leduc, éloge de la bâtarde provided a basis for Martin Provost's 2013 film Violette, for which de Ceccatty co-wrote the screen-play.
