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The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage
- Title
- The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage / Paul Elie.
- Author
- Elie, Paul, 1965-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Subject
- Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990
- O'Connor, Flannery
- American literature > Catholic authors > History and criticism
- Christianity and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
- Catholics > United States > Intellectual life
- Catholics > United States > Biography
- Catholics in literature
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-534) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : on pilgrimage -- Experience -- The downward path -- Seeking the real -- Another world -- Independents -- The school of the Holy Ghost -- The stranger -- Counterparts -- Convergences -- Pilgrimage or crusade? -- The holiness of the ordinary -- The life you save may be your own.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-6885
- ISBN
- 0374256802
- 9780374256807
- LCCN
- 2002192522
- OCLC
- 51046749
- Author
- Elie, Paul, 1965- author.
- Title
- The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage / Paul Elie.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Description
- xiii, 554 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-534) and index.
- Summary
- This volume chronicles the influences, writing struggles and religious imagination at work in four American writers -- Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day. All of them were Catholic, and all of them flourished over the roughly 30- or 40-year period from the 1930's through the 60's that is sometimes called ''the Catholic moment'' in America. Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Day was the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; O'Connor was a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Percy was a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. The author draws comparisons between their backgrounds, temperaments, circumstances and words, he reveals "four like-minded writers" whose work took the shape of a movement. Though they produced no manifesto they were unified as pilgrims moving toward the same destination while taking different paths.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-6885