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Ladataan... A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction (2002)Tekijä: Ron Hansen
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. These essays overall were well done and some were excellent. This collection will not every appeal to reader but it will to most. There were only two which I personally found uninteresting. The essays vary in length and serve as a good way to introduce oneself to Hansen's other fiction work. I really liked his earlier novel Mariette In Ecstasy. Hansen is from Omaha, Nebraska but has lived on the West Coast of the US for some time. He is Roman Catholic but don't hold that against him, he writes very well and should be read by more than his fellow clan of writers. He concludes this book with a Works Cited section which I always find helpful for future names I should investigate. I'm glad to have finally gotten around to reading this. ( ) ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
In the tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Andre Dubus, A Stay Against Confusion explores the role that religious belief and literature play in one writer's life. All creative writing is, in the words of Robert Frost, "a stay against confusion." It tries to find a harmony and order that we only fleetingly detect beneath the chaos of everyday life, and to point out motivations and causalities in what seem to be random and often meaningless acts. Religion has also functioned in this way for Ron Hansen, and it shares with literature both a reverence for mystery and the use of metaphor to communicate another order that we will never fully perceive or comprehend. In this rich and deeply felt collection of essays, Hansen talks about his novels, his childhood and family, and about such mentors as John Gardner. He explores prayer, stigmata, twentieth-century martyrs, and the Eucharist. A profile of his grandfather, a "tough-as-nails, brook-no-guff Colorado rancher," finds a place alongside a wonderfully informative portrait of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. A brilliant reading of a story by Leo Tolstoy follows an appreciation of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. A surprisingly intimate book, A Stay Against Confusion brings together the literary and religious impulses that inform the life of one of our most gifted fiction writers. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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