Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very end The Honorary Consul thins and flattens down to a claptrap scene-barely suitable for framing on celluloid-in which Fortnum, Plarr and the kidnapers, led (yes) by a renegade priest named Leon, are beleaguered by police with searchlights and a helicopter. But much of the novel is as finely controlled and exquisitely melancholy as a Mozart symphony...
...Greene so baldly confronted the problem of God and evil, or the purpose, if any, of the horrors that God seems to visit alike upon those condemned to believe and those condemned to thirst after faith. "Free will was the excuse for everything," says Léon, the priest turned revolutionary, as he recalls his early training. "It was God's alibi. Evil was made by man or Satan. It was simple that way. But I couldn't believe in Satan. It was easier to believe that God was evil." Then, Léon offers an informal post...
...Christian novelist. In his books, God is a respected familiar; eternity is a definite place on the map. There is always an old-fashioned metaphysical confrontation. In his first novel, Bishop's Progress, the bishop and a surgeon angrily reshuffle old arguments about Christian charity. In Horn, a priest and a black leader dispute ethics. Now, in the new book, a fashionable venture into futurism, the author yokes a world-weary priest and a profane Noah who repopulated a ravaged world...
...comfort is meager and government insanely harsh, man is glorified as the Lord of Creation. The great annual holiday is called the Feast of Eater, honoring the legendary hero who long ago defied the order to kill himself. His name-no name is too obvious for Mano-was Dominick Priest...
...rest of the book tells Priest's story as reconstructed by one of his descendants. Mano now plunges into an entirely different culture and a whole new set of environmental details. This time a political regime, which is mercifully left sketchy, has decreed that all forms of life down to the merest microbe are equal. Any aggression, even an argument, is a criminal act. People can only ingest something called E-diet, so insubstantial that men no longer sweat, urinate or defecate. Even so, they kill certain microscopic organisms simply by breathing. The command for general suicide goes...