去年夏天,我在美国的加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)做访问学者时,曾有幸和远藤周作先生邂逅,这对我来说当然是件求之不得的事。不过也十分偶然,因为之前我对在日本文坛,乃至在世界文坛都名声显赫的远藤先生一无所知。 When I was a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the United States last summer, I was fortunate enough to meet Mr. Chow Chikuho Endo, which of course was an unforgettable thing to me. However, it was also very fortunate because I did not know anything about Mr. Endo, who had a distinguished reputation in Japan’s literary world and even in the world’s literary world.