Maria Cross
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Maria Cross

Imaginative Patterns in a Group of Catholic Writers

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eBook - ePub

Maria Cross

Imaginative Patterns in a Group of Catholic Writers

About this book

The first literary phase in the brilliant and protean career of Conor Cruise O'Brien was his work as critic for Dublin literary magazine The Bell, which begat this collection of essays first published in 1952 (under the pseudonym 'Donat O'Donnell', as O'Brien was then a working civil servant.) In it, O'Brien set himself to a study of 'the patterns of several exceptionally vivid imaginations which are permeated by Catholicism' - from Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh to Francois Mauriac and Paul Claudel - and to analyse 'what those patterns might share'. The originality and flair of Maria Cross won O'Brien many vocal admirers, among them Dag Hammarskjold, cerebral Secretary-General of the United Nations.

'A most interesting and at times brilliant book, admirably and wittily written.' New Statesman

'One of the most acute and stimulating books of literary criticism to be published for some years.' Spectator

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9780571323593
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Conor Cruise O’Brien: An Appreciation
  6. Introduction to the New Edition
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. I: François Mauriac: The Secret Door
  10. II: The Faust of Georges Bernanos
  11. III: Graham Greene: The Anatomy of Pity
  12. IV: The Parnellism of Seán O’Faoláin
  13. V: The Pieties of Evelyn Waugh
  14. VI: The Temple of Memory: Péguy
  15. VII: The Rhinegold of Paul Claudel
  16. VIII: The Paradise of Léon Bloy
  17. IX: Maria Cross
  18. Appendix
  19. 1. A Pillar in the Cloud
  20. 2. Mr. Greene’s Battlefield
  21. 3. Our Men in Africa
  22. Index
  23. Copyright