Brother Ass (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eduardo Barrios
- First Published: 1922
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Twentieth century
- Setting: A rural town in Chile
- Principal Characters: Fray Rufino, Fray Lázaro, María Mercedes, Gracia
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Autobiography, Rape, Faith, Mysticism, South America or South Americans, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Priests
- Locales: Chile
The Story:
Fray Lázaro had celebrated his seventh anniversary as a Franciscan friar. His major concern, that he had never had a true call to the priesthood, led him to write a diary. The diary focused on his life and on the life of Fray Rufino, a friar who had earned the reputation of a saint.
Both men had been under considerable stress because of life at the monastery. Fray Rufino had trained cats and mice to eat from the same plate. The monks celebrated this event as a miracle. It soon became a curse, however, as the cats stopped hunting mice, and rodents invaded the...
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