[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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