tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post5684274617217015963..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Seeing silenceMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-62902385083500300692017-01-24T11:23:44.877-05:002017-01-24T11:23:44.877-05:00Alissa Wilkinson: Shūsaku Endō’s novel Silence (fi...Alissa Wilkinson: Shūsaku Endō’s novel Silence (first published in Japanese in 1966 as Chinmoku, then translated into English in 1969) is slippery and troubling, a book that refuses to behave. It flatters no reader; it refuses to comfort anyone. In telling the story of Portuguese priests and persecuted Christians in Japan, it navigates the tension between missionary and colonizer, East and West, Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-60258325338934474982017-01-24T11:12:59.615-05:002017-01-24T11:12:59.615-05:00Thank you for your elegant posting. I look forward...Thank you for your elegant posting. I look forward to seeing the film. You remind of a difficult lesson: Christians (like me, a Christian malgre lui) often have forgotten about the true Christ, and remembering can be difficult.RTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113953356514605424noreply@blogger.com