I didn’t enjoy this much, although expected to, after a heavy diet of thrillers.
There is a bit in the introduction by John Updike who says that the Roman Catholicism in Brighton Rock, Heart of the Matter and End of an Affair (all of which I love) ‘has faintly something stuck on about it’ although he is comparing these with The Power & the Glory. But it made me think.
This is a pretty bleak book about a self-confessedly corrupt Mexican priest wandering around the country and trying to justify his existence, knowing that he will be captured and executed eventually. The biblical parallels struck me as ‘faintly stuck on’ and the whole book as somewhat portentous.
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