Hermeneutics of Evil in the Works of End Shsaku: Between Reading and Writing by

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Evil is a salient component of End Shsaku's writing. This study offers new insight into the intellectual and artistic development of the author by focusing on a lesser known yet significant body of work – his essays and critical texts – and reads them in light of his ideas on evil, subjectivity and personhood.

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Evil is a salient component of End Shsaku's writing. Questions surrounding evil haunted the writer as a student of French literature, having discovered the works of Western authors like François Mauriac and Georges Bernanos. It is around the problem of evil that End would create his most renowned novels and the cross-cultural dimensions of the questions he posed on the nature of evil would make him one of the most widely translated Japanese authors.This study offers new insight into the intellectual and artistic development of the author by focusing on a lesser known yet significant body of work: his essays and critical texts. The book is, on the one hand, an attempt to follow the path of thinking delineated by End Shsaku himself and, on the other, a methodological approach to literary studies based on the application of selected categories of Paul Ricœur's hermeneutics. Thus, the book accentuates the problem of subjectivity and personhood in End's works, ultimately exploring the question, Who is the one who asks about evil?

Author Biography

Justyna Weronika Kasza is a researcher in Japanese language, literature and culture. She was previously based at the University of Central Lancashire from 2011 to 2015, where she taught Japanese language and culture. She received support from the Japan Foundation Doctoral Scheme (2008–2009) at the Sophia University in Tokyo and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant for Research Projects (2015). Her interests include the life and works of the contemporary Japanese writer End Shsaku, Paul Ricœur's hermeneutics in reading Japanese literature, life-writing narratives and the notion of the 'self' and 'subjectivity' in Japan, and the reception of the works of the French writer François Mauriac in Japan.

Table of Contents

Contents: Paul Ricœur's Hermeneutics of Evil – End Shsaku and his Encounter with the West – From Critic to Novelist: Towards the Problem of Evil – The Writer's Cogito: Evil as the Central Problem – The Enigma of Suffering in Deep River (1993).

Details ISBN3034318391 Author Justyna Weronika Kasza Pages 353 Publisher Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Year 2016 ISBN-10 3034318391 ISBN-13 9783034318396 Format Paperback Publication Date 2016-03-28 Imprint Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Subtitle Between Reading and Writing Place of Publication Pieterlen Country of Publication Switzerland DEWEY 895.635 Short Title HERMENEUTICS OF EVIL IN THE WO Language English Media Book UK Release Date 2016-03-28 Edition Description New edition Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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