Thoughts on faith, culture, and public life.
By Rod Benson At its best, literature is a conversation across cultures and generations. Writers inherit plots, characters, genres and conventions, then reshape them for different audiences. Yet contemporary retellings of Shakespeare, myth and the novel provoke a genuine question: do they tend to reveal neglected possibilities and navigate unexplored depths in classic works, or …
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Robert Musil is one of the least widely read of the great European modernist writers, yet his work occupies a distinctive place in twentieth-century intellectual culture. His fiction is neither conventionally religious nor militantly anti-religious. It explores the spiritual exhaustion of modern civilisation, the collapse of moral certainty, and the persistent human longing for transcendence …
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