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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Conor Cruise OâBrien: An Appreciation
- Introduction to the New Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I: François Mauriac: The Secret Door
- II: The Faust of Georges Bernanos
- III: Graham Greene: The Anatomy of Pity
- IV: The Parnellism of SeĂĄn OâFaolĂĄin
- V: The Pieties of Evelyn Waugh
- VI: The Temple of Memory: Péguy
- VII: The Rhinegold of Paul Claudel
- VIII: The Paradise of Léon Bloy
- IX: Maria Cross
- Appendix
- 1. A Pillar in the Cloud
- 2. Mr. Greeneâs Battlefield
- 3. Our Men in Africa
- Index
- Copyright