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Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say (original 2001; edition 2004)

by Frederick Buechner (Author)

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Interesting insights, but I'm skeptical of critics who examine authors' works and then pretend to some insight into their lives. That's a risky business. ( )
  tjsjohanna | Apr 28, 2007 |
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Very much liked the chapter on G.K. Chesterton. At the end of the chapter, he is speaking about Syme (main character from "The Man Who Was Thursday"):

"....Syme talks to himself about Sunday. 'When I see the horrible back, I am sure that the noble face is a mask,' he says. 'When I see the face but for an instant, I know the back is only a jest.' He then adds, 'Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil can be explained,'..." (122). ( )
  SaraMSLIS | Jan 26, 2016 |
I picked this book up because in it one of my favorite authors discusses my favorite works of four other favorite authors. Buechner feels these are works where each author has laid bare his feelings as he has struggled with his “dark times of the soul” and somehow survived. The works discussed are late sonnets, known as the “terrible sonnets” of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, and King Lear by William Shakespeare. In these essays he deepened my understanding of those works and revealed hidden depths of the authors who penned them. ( )
1 vote MusicMom41 | Jun 17, 2010 |
Interesting insights, but I'm skeptical of critics who examine authors' works and then pretend to some insight into their lives. That's a risky business. ( )
  tjsjohanna | Apr 28, 2007 |
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