Two Periods, One Faith
Richard A. Rosengarten January 22, 2007 - 3:09pm
Graham Greene’s Catholic Imagination
Mark Bosco, SJ
Oxford University Press, $47.50, 216 pp.
Like the writers associated with the term “Southern literature,” those associated as “Catholic novelists” have a shared achievement. In the case of the Catholic novel, the cast spans several nations—England (Waugh, Greene, Lodge), the United States (O’Connor, Percy), and France (Mauriac, Bernanos), to name a few. All wrote in the twentieth century, and each presents an image of lived Catholic faith in a world that challenges it. In this company, Graham Greene was the...
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