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Black Robe (1985)

Tekijä: Brian Moore

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Jesuit Father Laforgue sets forth in the Canadian wilderness to convert the Algonkins. He travels deep into the wilderness with the Indians and is abandoned to his fate in 17th-century Canada.
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    cbl_tn: Both novels are about 16th century Jesuit missionaries.
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    cbl_tn: Similar settings and time period.
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An odd story that works more often than not. It tells the story of a 17th-century missionary priest and his companions as they journey into the unforgiving Canadian wilderness, encountering Algonquin, Iroquois and Huron 'savages' of various dispositions. This is right up my street, a cross between The Mission and The Last of the Mohicans. The story is well-told – a gripping adventure, even if the majesty (and brutality) of the landscape is not evoked as often as it perhaps should be, and some events are queasily gruesome. Author Brian Moore has good powers of ventriloquism, and his characters all ring true. Even the 'savages' are only called that as it is historically accurate to do so, and they act and react in believable ways. The culture clash between the natives and the missionaries – the natives call the priests sorcerers and 'black robes', hence the book's title – drives the reader's interest throughout.

Which makes it all the more disappointing that there are a few authorial decisions which, if not wounding the book, at least give it some hefty bruises. Moore's work on character is partially undermined by the odd decision to have the 'savages' speak crudely; I know it is an attempt to imitate the real natives' rough vernacular, but it is a valiant attempt at historical accuracy that fails. It's just too much to listen to a load of Indians calling each other stupid cunts and fuckpots and silly pricks. Similarly, there are some rather ribald sex scenes in the book, with erect members flying all over the place. In any book, this would require a reader to be onboard – if only to laugh it off. In a novel like this one, it's a heavy assault of tonal dissonance.

I did enjoy the adventure, and one line at the end of the book has given me pause when I think about my criticisms above. "Was this true baptism or a mockery?" a priest asks on page 223, agonising over the validity of the natives' mass conversion. It made me think that perhaps the book's tonal dissonance was intentional, something to compel the reader into a crisis of confidence comparable to the priest. I don't know if that was Moore's purpose, or if I'm just being an overly clever bastard, but regardless, it's not enough. If this theme had come out earlier, instead of on the second-to-last page, it might have been something. As it is, some of the book's flaws – including a rather convenient 'miracle' towards the end – mean that Black Robe is never an essential read, even if it is an interesting one. ( )
  MikeFutcher | Nov 5, 2019 |
Interesting book. I read this as part of my research for a book I am writing which includes some indigenous peoples of Canada. It seems to go out of it's way to portray native peoples as "savages" a term that is used throughout. I believe it is based on memoirs of a 17th Century French missionary and that might account for some of what seems to be a biased viewpoint. Having said that I'm sure much of what is in the book is accurate. I understand the biased veiwpoint a Jesuit would journal. After all these missionaries had been sent to win over heathen souls. ( )
  paulhock | Oct 17, 2017 |
Father Laforgue, a Jesuit priest, is a recent arrival to New France. After two years of language study, he is sent to join a remote mission. A group of Algonkins have been paid to guide Laforgue and a young lay assistant, Daniel, to the mission. Daniel has his own reason for making the trip. He is secretly in love with one of the young Algonkin women. Although the Algonkins have agreed to take the Normans (as they call the French) to the mission, there is a deep mistrust between the cultures, and neither side is fully aware of their failure to understand the other. Not everyone who set out on the journey will arrive at the destination.

This novel is primarily a character study of Father Lafargue, although the perspective occasionally shifts to other characters. Lafargue experiences a crisis of faith during the journey. He isn't the same man at the end of the journey as he was at the beginning. His crisis of faith is similar to that of the Jesuit priest in Endo's Silence. This book covers the same themes as Joseph Boyden's The Orenda. Moore's preface cites the Jesuit Relations for source material, and Boyden seems to have drawn on the same source for his novel. Boyden's characters have much more depth. This is a good novel, but it suffers by comparison to both Endo and Boyden. Silence and The Orenda were both 5 star reads for me. ( )
1 ääni cbl_tn | Jan 29, 2017 |
Black Robe is a fantastic novel. Father Lafourge is a French Jesuit in early 17th Century Canada who goes "up river" into the dark forests of Quebec. What he finds there tests his faith. According to Moore, what interested him is "the moment in which one's illusions are shattered and one has to live without the faith .. which originally sustained them." It has elements of Heart of Darkness or Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God. It is both realistic and historically accurate, but also dreamlike and transcendent. ( )
  Stbalbach | Jul 7, 2016 |
Brian Moore captures the emotional anguish of a priest in a crisis of faith surprisingly well for a journey narrative. It was well written, full of incredible metaphors and parallels that make you look past the culture clash and see, instead, the shared humanity of very different people. That being said, I read it for a class and really didn't anticipate how graphic some of the torture scenes were - it was pretty traumatizing. still a better way to spend my night than watching the grammy's, though. ( )
  suttonrl | Mar 31, 2016 |
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