| #2500503 in Books | 2009-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.50 x.70 x5.00l,.46 | File type: PDF | 200 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Even better than expected|By Roadrunner|I have read about 90% of Endo's works, both in English translation and in the original, and this one rates high. A thoughtful, moving work, reflecting his own experiences as a young student abroad.|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Stranger in a Strange Land|By Randy Keehn|From Publishers Weekly|Elegantly divided into three sections, this 1965 novel by the celebrated Japanese author of Scandal calibrates the dislocation of Easterners transplanted to the West. "A Summer in Rouen," set shortly after WW II, follows the recipient of a
In the early 1950s, Shusaku Endo spent several years as an exchange student studying in Paris. Around him existentialism, Sartre, and Beckett were making the city the literary and philosophical capital of the world. But for Endo, the experience was deeply alienating, and he came away infected with tuberculosis, his studies incomplete, and having convinced himself that there could be no cultural commerce between East and West. Foreign Studies consist...
You easily download any file type for your device.Foreign Studies (Peter Owen Modern Classic) | Shusaku Endo.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
