by John Updike, Graham Greene
This was a bit of a struggle, being twice as long as its limited ambition requires - that ambition being to illustrate the weakness, fallability and moral confusion of a Catholic priest, tempered by a hint of hope. At least this was acheived. The setting is a Southern State of Mexico where a deadl...
"The wall of the burial-ground had fallen in: one or two crosses had been smashed by enthusiasts: an angel had lost one of its stone wings, and what gravestones were left undamaged leant at an acute angle in the long marshy grass. One image of the Mother of God had lost ears and arms and stood like ...
bookshelves: fraudio, published-1940, autumn-2014, mexico, tbr-busting-2014, religion, roman-catholic, classic Recommended for: Broken Tune Read from November 17 to 18, 2014 Description: In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God...
Introduction--The Power and the Glory
I get what Greene is going for here. He gives us an imperfect vessel persecuted by a secular society who, despite some serious opposition and shortcomings, manages to do some good, show some humanity and represent Catholicism and God in a way that ultimately redeems both.It just didn't resonate with...
Okay, that does it. Officially my last try with Graham Greene. I've given him many more chances than he deserves. Aside from The Quiet American, I just cannot abide his style.
This was so sweetly twisted. I love me some moral relativism. I think religion (especially champion religion like catholicism) can do an excellent job complicating things and creating some really unnecessary moral dilemmas. In "The Power and the Glory" we have a priest who is painfully human which w...
I haven't yet decided if reading this novel at the height of summer in the Philippines was supremely prescient or foolhardy. The first few chapters of this novel are alienating in their bleakness, approximating the aridity of a soul so far from grace. Graham Greene's prose sucks out all the oxygen f...
Somehow I missed the hoopla here. I just wanted this trudge to end. And then I swore off Graham Greene. An unfortunate turn, maybe, maybe not.
This was so sweetly twisted. I love me some moral relativism. I think religion (especially champion religion like catholicism) can do an excellent job complicating things and creating some really unnecessary moral dilemmas. In "The Power and the Glory" we have a priest who is so painfully human whic...
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