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Richard Wiley

Richard Wiley
Richard Wiley is a short story writer and novelist and a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Reading Faust in Shimoda

By Richard Wiley
Fiction•Vol. XXVIII No. 1 (Spring 2015)

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 there during Japan’s… [Read More]

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