Shusaku Endo - Bibliography

Bibliography

• White Men or White Man (1955)
• Yellow Man (1955): A novella in the form of a letter written by a young man, no longer a practicing Catholic, to his former pastor, a French missionary.
• 海と毒薬 (The Sea and Poison) (1957): Set largely in a Fukuoka hospital during World War II, this novel is concerned with medical experimentation carried out on downed American airmen. It is written with alternating points of view: the bulk of the story is written with a subjective, limited (but shifting) third-person view; three segments are told in first-person view. Inspired by true events, this novel was made into the 1986 movie The Sea and Poison. Directed by Kei Kumai, it stars Eiji Okuda and Ken Watanabe.
• Wonderful Fool (1959): A story about a kind, innocent and naive Frenchman visiting post-war Tōkyo.
• Stained Glass Elegies (1959)
• Volcano (1960): A novel concerning three declining figures: an apostate Catholic priest, the director of a weather station in provincial Japan, and the volcano on which the latter is an expert.
• 私が棄てた女 (The Girl I Left Behind) (1964): A story of a young man and his mismatches with an innocent young woman. As Endō writes in the foreword, one of the characters has a connection with Otsu, a character in the novel Deep River.
• 留学 (Ryuugaku) Foreign Studies (1965)
• 沈黙 (Chinmoku) Silence (1966): Winner of the 2nd Tanizaki Prize and Endō's most famous work, it is generally regarded as his masterpiece. This historical novel tells the story of a Portuguese missionary in early 17th-century Japan who becomes an apostate under the threat of torture but continues to keep the Christian faith in private. The book inspired the feature film adaptation Os Olhos da Ásia by Portuguese film director João Mário Grilo.
• The Golden Country (1966): later Endō may have published a play under the same title.
• 死海のほとり ("Banks of the Dead Sea") (1973)
• イエスの生涯 (Life of Jesus) (1973)
• 口笛をふく時 (When I Whistle) (1974)
• Volcano (1979)
• 王妃マリーアントワネット　Marie Antoinette (1979): This book inspired the musical Marie Antoinette by German musical dramatist and lyricist Michael Kunze.
• 侍 The Samurai (1980): A historical novel relating the diplomatic mission of Hasekura Tsunenaga to Mexico and Europe in the 17th century.
• 私の愛した小説 ("Novels loved by me") & 本当の私を求めて ("Search for the real me")
• Scandal (1986): Set in Tōkyo, the book is about a novelist who finds himself caught up in the scandal of the title.
• Deep River (1993): Set in India, it chronicles the physical and spiritual journey of a group of Japanese tourists who are facing a wide range of moral and spiritual dilemmas.
• The Final Martyrs (English translation in 2008)