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"Only a Christian, nay a mystic, because he has some idea of what there is in man, can be a complete novelist." --Jacques Maritain Literature . . . is the science or history partly and at best of the natural man, partly of man in rebellion. It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless Literature of sinful man. --Saint John Henry Newman All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it. --Flannery O'Connor How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic is a sweeping survey of some of the finest literary works ever written by our fallen and yet redeemed race. Joshua Hren takes readers on a tour that spans centuries and explores our broken path to salvation, passing through stories known to many but perhaps understood by few, and others that merit a broader readership. With appeals to staples of the Catholic literary tradition such as Flannery O'Connor and Evelyn Waugh, to the often-sidelined works of Léon Bloy, Caroline Gordon, and Christopher Beha, to the masterpieces of even those who were distanced from the Church--Flaubert and James Joyce and Chekhov; Hemingway and David Foster Wallace and George Saunders--Hren sheds light on stories that grapple with matters essential to Catholics. His intrinsically Catholic approach to the study of literature examines the presence of conversion in great literary texts, and considers the way in which writers dramatize the workings of grace upon nature. His analysis also bears a sacramental vision, articulating the ways in which seen images point to unseen realities. How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic searches out the persistence of Catholic ideas, images, and concerns in purportedly secular and postmodern stories. It is a love letter to the Christic imagination which incarnates human nature as having its final end not in the characters' self-actualization, but in their salvation, giving readers of this work a deeper understanding of how the power of story can lead them closer to Christ. Includes a section for aspiring writers devoted to the techniques and devices that make good fiction, as well as a list of must-read literary works by which all Catholics can be enriched.… (más)
I really enjoyed this TAN book which happens to be the only hardcover book of theirs that I have. I welcome more great high quality books such as this in the future. Hren gives an excellent collection of previously published articles in a single book (462 pp). The book is part Catholic apologetics, literary studies, philosophical worldview, and exposition of novelists' dialogue techniques. The book is aimed at Catholic writers of novels and pushes for there to more of them and more who are widely read. Many novels which I have not read are covered here and encouraged to be put on personal To-Be Read lists. I was not the target audience since my interest is in comparative world literature. I am not interested in producing novels, but recommending them to Catholic readers and hoping that the ensuing conversations will help better appreciate their own religious persuasion and tradition. The end of the book has two appendices which are excellent (101 Books to Read Like a Catholic and Further Forays (80 more noteworthy works). This is more than a comfort read on familiar topics for me as it was also betting that Hren could persuade me to read some of the novels he discusses which were previously unknown to me. The most obvious one was Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Hren also spends much time on Flannery O'Connor whom I am not exposed very widely to. This was informative and entertaining and hoped for new writers to produce novels to that are truly Catholic and not merely cannibalizing Catholic elements to puff out a random criticism of the religious world view of Catholicism. I highly recommend this book for Catholics adding to their lifetime reading lists (I have a list showing my preferences) or as a gift to anyone who has done creative writing and enjoys the camaraderie/sorority of seeing the cultural value of artists in the eyes of others. Physically well constructed book, printed in America. No Index. ( )
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For Dana Gioia, who has given this verse a real presence:
Be not therefore solicitous for tomorrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. ~Matthew 6:34, DRA
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When St. John Henry Newman sat down to write his lectures that would become The Idea of a University, the newly christened St. Stephen's Green buildings showed nothing of the "deep dilapidation" that poet and fellow convert Gerard Manley Hopkins would describe to the aging cardinal thirty years later.
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Only a mystic can be a faithful fictionist, for only the mystic fictionist can write Balzac's novelistic, all-too-human comedy in the register of the Dantean divine.
"Only a Christian, nay a mystic, because he has some idea of what there is in man, can be a complete novelist." --Jacques Maritain Literature . . . is the science or history partly and at best of the natural man, partly of man in rebellion. It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless Literature of sinful man. --Saint John Henry Newman All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it. --Flannery O'Connor How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic is a sweeping survey of some of the finest literary works ever written by our fallen and yet redeemed race. Joshua Hren takes readers on a tour that spans centuries and explores our broken path to salvation, passing through stories known to many but perhaps understood by few, and others that merit a broader readership. With appeals to staples of the Catholic literary tradition such as Flannery O'Connor and Evelyn Waugh, to the often-sidelined works of Léon Bloy, Caroline Gordon, and Christopher Beha, to the masterpieces of even those who were distanced from the Church--Flaubert and James Joyce and Chekhov; Hemingway and David Foster Wallace and George Saunders--Hren sheds light on stories that grapple with matters essential to Catholics. His intrinsically Catholic approach to the study of literature examines the presence of conversion in great literary texts, and considers the way in which writers dramatize the workings of grace upon nature. His analysis also bears a sacramental vision, articulating the ways in which seen images point to unseen realities. How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic searches out the persistence of Catholic ideas, images, and concerns in purportedly secular and postmodern stories. It is a love letter to the Christic imagination which incarnates human nature as having its final end not in the characters' self-actualization, but in their salvation, giving readers of this work a deeper understanding of how the power of story can lead them closer to Christ. Includes a section for aspiring writers devoted to the techniques and devices that make good fiction, as well as a list of must-read literary works by which all Catholics can be enriched.
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