Justyna Weronika Kasza is a researcher in Japanese language, literature and culture. She was previously based at the University of Central Lancashire from 2011 to 2015, where she taught Japanese language and culture. She received support from the Japan Foundation Doctoral Scheme (20082009) at the Sophia University in Tokyo and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant for Research Projects (2015). Her interests include the life and works of the contemporary Japanese writer End Shsaku, Paul Ricurs hermeneutics in reading Japanese literature, life-writing narratives and the notion of the self and subjectivity in Japan, and the reception of the works of the French writer Franois Mauriac in Japan.

• Contents: Paul Ricurs Hermeneutics of Evil End Shsaku and his Encounter with the West From Critic to Novelist: Towards the Problem of Evil The Writers Cogito: Evil as the Central Problem The Enigma of Suffering in Deep River (1993).

Justyna Weronika Kasza is a researcher in Japanese language, literature and culture. She was previously based at the University of Central Lancashire from 2011 to 2015, where she taught Japanese language and culture. She received support from the Japan Foundation Doctoral Scheme (20082009) at the Sophia University in Tokyo and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant for Research Projects (2015). Her interests include the life and works of the contemporary Japanese writer End Shsaku, Paul Ricurs hermeneutics in reading Japanese literature, life-writing narratives and the notion of the self and subjectivity in Japan, and the reception of the works of the French writer Franois Mauriac in Japan.

• Contents: Paul Ricurs Hermeneutics of Evil End Shsaku and his Encounter with the West From Critic to Novelist: Towards the Problem of Evil The Writers Cogito: Evil as the Central Problem The Enigma of Suffering in Deep River (1993).

Justyna Weronika Kasza is a researcher in Japanese language, literature and culture. She was previously based at the University of Central Lancashire from 2011 to 2015, where she taught Japanese language and culture. She received support from the Japan Foundation Doctoral Scheme (20082009) at the Sophia University in Tokyo and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant for Research Projects (2015). Her interests include the life and works of the contemporary Japanese writer End Shsaku, Paul Ricurs hermeneutics in reading Japanese literature, life-writing narratives and the notion of the self and subjectivity in Japan, and the reception of the works of the French writer Franois Mauriac in Japan.

• Contents: Paul Ricurs Hermeneutics of Evil End Shsaku and his Encounter with the West From Critic to Novelist: Towards the Problem of Evil The Writers Cogito: Evil as the Central Problem The Enigma of Suffering in Deep River (1993).