Deep River - Shusaku Endo
Deep River by Shusaku Endo
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
There is death. Yet, there is also life. There are long emotionally dead passages. Yet, there are also moments so charged with feeling they consume all in their path, carrying along for a bit and leaving behind ones willing to do anything to catch up. You have the search for reincarnated love ones, the search for emotional fulfillment, the search to reconcile death with life, the search for atonement, each person ever searching for something omnipresent in its never clearly defined state. And on it goes, this one period of time accepting all parts of life into its midst; the river mentioned in the pages embodies this, and will take everything in without spitting out any straightforward conclusions of its own. This is definitely a novel that won’t get very far with a reader without some interpretation on their part; it is only fully enjoyed if one can see their own life experiences within the pages, and leave with a new understanding of just what it means to exist.
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I am a college student with an artist's melancholy and a scientist's morbidity (yes, there is a difference). Here I collect pretty things, pwnful things, powerful things, along with dashes of humor and fuck yeah moments. Enjoy.
