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(★)(Titulo original : スキャンダル [Sukyandaru], Translated by Van C. Gessel)(An enigmatic train of events is set in motion when Suguro, an aging, respectably married Catholic novelist, is accosted by a drunken woman at a party. She claims to know him from his frequent visits to the unsavory porn district of Tokyo, where his portrait is being exhibited. Suguro denies any knowledge of the picture or ever having been in that part of town. Yet when a morbid curiosity compels him to track down the portrait, it seems oddly familiar, like a leering, degenerate-looking version of himself. ´Scandal´ is at once a psychological thriller and a literary work of art that grips and propels the reader as it subtly peels off layers from the dark side of human nature.／ ◆Shusaku Endo [1923-1996], born in Tokyo and raised in Kobe, earned degrees in literature from Keio University[Japan] and the University of Lyon[France]. A Roman Catholic since the age of eleven, he produced a number of novels abounding with Christ figures and dealing symbolically with the failure of Christianity to gain a strong foothold in Japan-- a theme that is regarded as an extrapolation of his own personal conflict. Considered one of Japan´s greatest twentieth-century writers, Endo is often referred to as ´the Graham Greene of Japan´.) |
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