User:Johnxlibris/sandbox

Introduction
This is your sandbox. This is where you can try out new things! Like adding a link to a page about wombats. Or adding a citation.

What a sig looks like. Johnxlibris (talk) 04:45, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Replace the Reception section with:
Silence received the Tanizaki Prize for the year's best full-length literature. It has also been the subject of extensive analysis.(leave citation) In a review published by the New Yorker, John Updike called Silence "a remarkable work, a sombre, delicate, and startlingly empathetic study of a young Portuguese missionary during the relentless persecution of the Japanese Christians in the early seventeenth century."(1) William T. Cavanaugh highlights the novel's "deep moral ambiguity" due to the depiction of a God who "has chosen not to eliminate suffering, but to suffer with humanity."(leave citation: add/fix link to name)

Silence was not immediately successful among Japanese Catholics, who were among some of the novel's harshest critics. Instead, the novel's popularity was boosted by "left-wing college students" who saw a connection between the plight of Japanese Marxists in the circumstances of Fr. Rodrigues. (2) The novel was notably compared to Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, leading Endo to be referred to as "the Graham Greene of Japan." (3)

(1) John Updike, "From Fumie to Sony", The New Yorker, vol 55, no 48, January 14, 1980, pp94. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1980/01/14/from-fumie-to-sony

(2) Van C. Gessel, "Endô Shûsaku: His Position(s) in Postwar Japanese Literature", Vol. 27, No. 1 (Apr., 1993), pp. 69.

(3) Hoffer, B. (2003). Shusaku Endo and Graham Greene: Cross-Cultural Influences in Literary Structure. Language & Literature, vol 28, p127.

Replace last paragraph of Adaptations with (and add editorial note):
In 2016, the novel was adapted into a film, also named Silence, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Jay Cocks and Scorsese, and starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano and Ciarán Hinds.

Add red-link to:
The Golden Country Johnxlibris (talk) 22:57, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Add sub-sections for (and re-arrange):

 * Film
 * Musical Arrangements
 * Stage

find JET article with phrase (google books... no quotations) "should use his clout rather than focus on who gets the best table at Spago"