Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...degree of honesty attainable by a writer is best shown by Fisher's Vridar Hunter tetralogy, a four-novel Wolfean autobiography written during the Thirties, now reprinted in Cardinal paper-back edition. His objectivity is also shown in what is probably his most famous work--Children of God: An American Epic, a novel of almost a thousand pages which won the 1939 Harper's prize. Several years before the publication of Children of God, Bernard DeVoto had called the story of the Mormon migration the great American novel that will never be written. In his review of Fisher's novel...
...Fisher's latest bestseller was Pemmican, published last August and judged by the critics to have captured the spirit of the frontier as well as did A. B. Guthrie...
...ninth novel of the series, A Goat for Azazel, is a study of Christian origins and beliefs as seen through the eyes of a Second Century seeker of the spiritual Grail called Damon. Damon's intellectual odyssey parallels that of Fisher's; both are somewhat cynical about Christianity, the cynicism of a person beginning as the most beliveing idealist. Fisher was raised on an Idaho farm in a very strict Mormon environment; his intellectual conflict with his religious culture can be seen in Damon's lifetime search...
...Damon-Fisher strongly objects to Christian prejudice against the Jews as well as Christian renunciation of life. He cannot understand the death-wish and the related prohibition of sexual expression of many believers. Fisher is very much concerned with the sexual aspects of Christianity and the relationship of religious symbols to sexual ones. He utilizes many of the observations of modern psychology but adds a worthwhile number of his own. Damon finds nothing original in the rituals and beliefs of Christianity and regards it as just another mystery cult, the only difference being that of greater compassion and tenderness...
...novel is employed solely as a vehicle of idea expression and cannot be termed artistically successful. But the ideas are very much worth expressing, even though Fisher's extensive scholarship is too heavily anti-Christian weighted...