Maria Cross: Imaginative Patterns in a Group of Catholic Writers

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Title Maria Cross: Imaginative Patterns in a Group of Catholic Writers
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Conor Cruise O'Brien
Introduction by Oliver Kamm
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreLiterary studies - general
ISBN/Barcode 9780571323586
ClassificationsDewey:809.8921282
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 15 January 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The first literary phase in the brilliant and protean career of Conor Cruise O'Brien was his work as critic for Dublin literary magazine The Bell, which begat this collection of essays first published in 1952 (under the pseudonym 'Donat O'Donnell', as O'Brien was then a working civil servant). In it, O'Brien set himself to a study of 'the patterns of several exceptionally vivid imaginations which are permeated by Catholicism' - from Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh to Francois Mauriac and Paul Claudel - and to analyse 'what those patterns might share'. The originality and flair of Maria Cross won O'Brien many vocal admirers, among them Dag Hammarskjoeld, cerebral Secretary-General of the United Nations. 'A most interesting and at times brilliant book, admirably and wittily written.' New Statesman 'One of the most acute and stimulating books of literary criticism to be published for some years.' Spectator