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Cargando... Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say (Buechner, Frederick) (2001)por Frederick Buechner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I picked this book up because in it one of my favorite authors discusses my favorite works of four other favorite authors. Buechner feels these are works where each author has laid bare his feelings as he has struggled with his “dark times of the soul” and somehow survived. The works discussed are late sonnets, known as the “terrible sonnets” of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, and King Lear by William Shakespeare. In these essays he deepened my understanding of those works and revealed hidden depths of the authors who penned them. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In this compelling book, the great contemporary spiritual writer and novelist Frederick Buechner plumbs the mysteries and truths behind the literature that speaks to him most powerfully. Buechner presents the four authors who have been his greatest influences, focusing on the question that has emerged at the center of his life-how to face mortality, failure, and tragedy. Through sensitive biographical exploration and close reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins's sublime later sonnets, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, and William Shakespeare's most powerful play, King Lear, Buechner invites readers to discover the deeper joy and purpose of reading. He shows how these writers -- by putting their passion and pain into their work -- have enabled him to bear the weight of his own grief and sadness by "speaking out from under the burden of theirs." Buechner's ruminations on their writings leads to the revelation that God accepts us for doing the best we can, even if our lives are in some ways a failure; even if we have lived a life haunted by tragedy, as Buechner's has been haunted by his father's suicide. Buechner connects his readings to the fabric of his life and the lives of his subjects as he explores the ways in which these writers have shaped him and enhanced his faith. Buechner's insights into the power and imagination of their work resonate with his love for all that literature has given him throughout his life -- a passion he generously shares with us in Speak What We Feel. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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