The Diary of a Country Priest: Q&A Episode
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Apr 18 • 1HR 5M
The Diary of a Country Priest: Q&A Episode
Close Reads is a book-club podcast for the incurable reader. Featuring David Kern, Tim McIntosh and Heidi White, alongside a couple of other occasional guests, we read Great Books and talk about them. This is a show for amateurs in the best sense. We’re book lovers, book enthusiasts. This is not an experts show and it’s barely literary analysis in the way that literary analysis is commonly understood. Instead it’s a show about experiences with literary urge. Join us!
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Join Heidi and Sean as they answer your questions about Georges Bernanos’ novel! Thanks so much for participating in the conversation and happy listening!
Up next, we’ll be discussing Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter, starting with parts 1 and 2.
The Diary of a Country Priest: Q&A Episode
I'm sorry that Easter busyness meant I could only catch up with these later because I wanted to ask about the translation of the key line in the book. In the french it's: "tout est grace" which is: everything is grace but in the english it's: grace is everywhere. Seeing as this line is somewhat of a hermeneutic key to the whole book, I would have asked how much of a difference, if any, you think this translation makes to the overall interpretation of the book
A little late to the conversation, but here’s more hubbub for The Sparrow! I read it a few years ago as a new Catholic and I think I would love it even more now.
I do have a question about the diary. Is the reason the priest is able to disclose so much to a diary that the encounters with the Madam and Chantal aren’t under the seal of the confessional?