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Singular Rebellions

Walter Nash, 19 May 1988

Scandal 
by Shusaku Endo, translated by Van Gessel.
Peter Owen, 237 pp., £11.95, April 1988, 0 7206 0682 9
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Hell Screen, Cogwheels, A Fool’s Life 
by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
Eridanos, 145 pp., £13.95, March 1988, 0 941419 02 9
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Singular Rebellion 
by Saiichi Maruya, translated by Dennis Keene.
Deutsch, 412 pp., £12.95, March 1988, 0 233 98202 7
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... lights and shadows of humour, come with the depiction of citizens in societies, and this is what Saiichi Maruya offers us in Singular Rebellion. The title is – as comic titles so often are – a pun with several layers of meaning. The phrase ‘singular rebellion’ is used by one of the characters in the course of an impromptu disquisition on Time ...

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