Richard Wiley is a short story writer and novelist and a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award.Reading Faust in Shimoda
Back in the last days of the samurai, some years before the Meiji Restoration pushed Japan into the modern world, a German ex-priest named Wilhelm Mundt lived for seven years at Gyokusenji Temple at the northeast part of Shimoda Bay, on the tip of the Izu Peninsula. How he came to live...
