CRITICISM

Breuer, Hans-Peter. “The Roots of Guilt and Responsibility in Shusaku Endo's The Sea and Poison.” Literature and Medicine 7 (1988): 80-106.

Explores the moral implications of the doctors' actions in The Sea and Poison

Quinn, Philip L. “Tragic Dilemmas, Suffering Love, and Christian Life.” Journal of Religious Ethics 17, no. 1 (spring 1989): 151-83.

Examines the dilemma of simultaneously devoting oneself completely to love of Christ and to loving one's neighbor as oneself, using Endō's novel Silence to prove the possibility of fulfilling both obligations.

Shafer, Ingrid. “Shusaku Endo and Andrew Greeley: Catholic Imagination East and West.” Midamerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 18 (1991): 160-73.

Examines religious imagery in the fiction of Endō and Andrew Greeley, noting differences between Eastern and Western interpretations of Christianity.

Additional coverage of Endō's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 29-32R, 153; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 21, 54; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 7, 14, 19, 54, 99; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 182;Discovering Authors, 3.0; Discovering Authors Modules—Novelists Module; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century; Major Twentieth-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Reference Guide to World Literature Eds. 2, 3; and Short Story Criticism, Vol. 48.