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Van C. Gessel was born in Compton, California, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there in October 1968. He served as a missionary to Japan from 1970-71. He received a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University in 1979, and he has taught as a faculty member at Columbia, Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, and Brigham Young University. He was chair of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at BYU and dean of the College of Humanities.

Dr. Gessel has published six translations of literary works by the Japanese Christian novelist Endō Shūsaku, including The Samurai and Deep River. Another Endō novel, The Life of Kiku, will appear soon in his translation. He co-edited, with Reid Neilson, a vol ...more

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	The Shōwa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories 1929-1984 by Van C. Gessel (Editor), Tomone Matsumoto (Editor), Kojima Nobuo (Contributor) 4.05 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Showa Anthology 2: Modern Japanese Short Stories 1961-1984 by Van C. Gessel, Tomone Matsumoto (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories : 1929-1961 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sting of Life: Four Contemporary Japanese Novelists (Modern Asian Literature Series) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DLB 182: Japanese Fiction Writers Since World War II (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 182) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Samurai A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories, 1929-1984 (Two Volumes) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DLB 180: Japanese Fiction Writers, 1868-1945 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 180) by Van C. Gessel (Editor), Richard Layman (Editor), C. Frazer Clark (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dictionary of Literary Biography: German Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, 1280-1580 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 179) by Van C. Gessel (Editor), Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor), Richard Layman (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Japanese Literature: 02/2021 The Samurai, by Shusaku Endo	17	73	Feb 26, 2021 06:38AM
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