Endo, as with the Japanese author who is the hero of the Endo novel ''Scandal'' (Random House, 1988), ''his Catholicism colors everything he writes.'' Endo ''by implication dismisses those critics who have made much of his relatively unusual situation as a Christian intellectual living in a nation far from the West.''īut the British critic John Gross wrote in 1988 that with Mr. Coles noted that in an epigraph to ''Deep River,'' Mr. His writing in that work was praised by the psychiatrist Robert Coles, in a review in The New York Times Book Review, as ''a soulful gift to a world he keeps rendering as unrelievedly parched.''Īppraisals of the role of Christianity in Mr. His novel ''Deep River'' (New Directions, 1995) accompanies soulless modern Japanese voyagers to the Ganges River in India, where they come to know the humanity and the sufferings of some who have faith.
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