Research Catalog

Title

Stained glass elegies : stories / by Shusaku Endo ; translated by Van C. Gessel.

Author

Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996

Publication

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [1990]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Gessel, Van C.
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Strohbach, Hermann (Designer)
• Albers, Josef
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

165 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.

Series Statement

• Revived modern classic
• New Directions paperbook ; 699
• NDP699

Uniform Title

Short stories. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 > Translations into English
• Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996
• Short stories, Japanese > Translations into English
• Short stories, Japanese
• Manners and customs
• Japan > Social life and customs > Fiction
• Japan

Genre/Form

• Short stories.
• Fiction.
• Translations.
• Novels.

Note

• Collection of short stories translated from Japanese.
• "First published ... in the United States by Dodd, Mead in 1985. Published as New Directions Paperbook 699 in 1990."--Title page verso.
• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Hermann Strohbach; cover art: Glass Window by Josef Albers, courtesy of the New York Public Library Picture Collection.

Contents

Forty-year-old man -- Despicable bastard -- My belongings -- Fuda-no-Tsuji -- Day before -- Incredible voyage -- Unzen -- Mothers -- Retreating figures -- War generation -- Old friends.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-809

ISBN

• 0811211428
• 9780811211420

LCCN

90006026

OCLC

21443842

Author

Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996, author.

Title

Stained glass elegies : stories / by Shusaku Endo ; translated by Van C. Gessel.

Publisher

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [1990]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Revived modern classic

New Directions paperbook ; 699

NDP699

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 128

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-809 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Hermann Strohbach; cover art: Glass Window by Josef Albers, courtesy of the New York Public Library Picture Collection. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-809 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Gessel, Van C., translator.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Strohbach, Hermann (Designer), cover designer.

Albers, Josef, artist.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-809