[percy-l] LITR
Nikkibar at aol.com
Nikkibar at aol.com
Thu Apr 6 12:09:44 EDT 2006
There is no priest in Moviegoer. The other memorable priest in the Percy
canon is the Percival (Parsifal), the listening ear in Lancelot, to whom the story
is being told by the narrative voice; I can think of no other priests in any
pf the other novels.Father Smith's Confession is the key to whole meaning of
Thanatos. It is unimportant whether he is true to life or not as he serves as
raisoneur for the novel. One could do an interesting monograph on Fr. Smith as
being one of a long line of such wounded raisoneurs from the tradition of
Graham Greene. He is kissing cousins to the Benjamin/Lazarus figure in Walter
Miller Jr's Canticle For Leibowitz (one of Walker's favorite books).
Nikki Barranger
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