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...Shoes of the Fisherman, by Morris West. Catholic Novelist West imagines a Russian who becomes Pope just as his onetime interrogator becomes head of the Soviets. The resulting moral dialogue between God's man and Communism's master is woven into a texture of high drama...
...SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN (374 pp.)-Morris L. West-Morrow...
...saying the words without compassion. The contrast between this remoteness and the fervor on the faces of the communicants as they receive the Host and the Cup states Bergman's theme: a vain search for faith down ways that are closed. Besought, after the service, to counsel a fisherman (Max von Sydow) sick with world-sadness because "the Chinese now have an atom bomb," the pastor starts a confident trust-in-God homily that turns by stages into a pathetic malediction of the "echo God" who answers prayers with superficial comfort. The fisherman's consequent suicide leads...
...afternoon, having told the fisherman's wife of her husband's suicide without managing to give her a morsel of faith or comfort, the pastor goes to conduct vespers at a church in a nearby parish. A crippled verger waits for him in the study before the service. "There is too much talk of Christ's physical suffering in the Bible; I've suffered as much as Christ, in a physical way," he says. "Christ's real suffering was on the Cross, faced with God's silence in the moment of horrible doubt before...
...Bissinger has carefully rehearsed one of the finest casts assembed on a Harvard stage in recent years. As the fisherman who suspects the Americans' motives, Harry Cooper is vivid and strong. Anne Lilley Kerr is convincing in her desire, and Josephine Simon succeeds in transforming Rachel Verney's unique postwar experience into one of dramatic pertinence. Otto Holmberg turns the not-too-intriguing son into a sympathetic figure...