Misfits and Moral Injury: Why Shusaku Endo Matters Today
Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) was a Japanese novelist who, despite receiving his country’s highest literary awards, saw himself as a cultural misfit. Estranged as a child from his father in a deeply patriarchal society, he converted to Catholicism at age twelve, resisted the militaristic education of wartime Imperial Japan, endured loneliness