Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Merton
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Current events, Racism, Faith, Catholics or Catholic Church, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Meditation, Materialism, Isolation
Form and Content
From 1941 until his death in 1968, Thomas Merton lived as a Catholic Trappist monk-hermit in the Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky; the episodic form of this work was therefore determined largely by the rhythms and obligations of his religious vocation. Divided into five parts, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander is composed of 320 pages of personal reflections, metaphors, observations, insights, and critiques of various readings and of events, the more important of which are usefully indexed. The passages composing each part vary in length from...
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