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These great Christian houses: The ethos of suffering in Malamud, O'Connor, and Bellow
Abstract
This study explores the ethos of suffering in Bernard Malamud's The Assistant, Flannery O'Connor's "Parker's Back," and Saul Bellow's Herzog. All three works present characters who are searchers, dreamers. These characters are obsessed with their desires and are driven, at times, by forces unknown to themselves. They are in the grip of a compulsion to find a higher knowledge, a new way of living. The spiritual journey of each character illustrates a post-modern quest for (and a questioning of) faith and survival.
Subject Area
American literature
Recommended Citation
Mannis, Andrea, "These great Christian houses: The ethos of suffering in Malamud, O'Connor, and Bellow" (1996). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9712519.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9712519