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Is there such a thing as a modern catholic novel? By modern let's say I mean contemporary.

And by catholic I don't mean that it's about the church or that it's some kind of "god isn't dead" book version but rather a novel that explores universality (katholikos), truth, etc…

The only author that comes to mind is Eugène Green.

>> No.10293656

Everything worthy in catholicism has already been written before CVII. After that, everything simply went downhill.

>> No.10293661

This is the driving force behind most of my own writing.

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>> No.10293671

Evelyn Waugh, Helena, 1950.
Elisabeth Langgasser, The Quest, 1950.
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, 1951.
Paul Horgan, Things As They Are, 1951
Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood, 1952.
Jose Maria Gironella, The Cypresses Believe in God, 1953.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957.
John Howard Griffin, The Devil Rides Outside, 1952.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, 1954-55.
Heimito von Doderer, The Demons, 1956.
Julien Green, The Transgressor, 1956.
Alfred Doblin, Tales of a Long Night, 1956.
Caroline Gordon, The Malefactors, 1957.
Shusaku Endo, Wonderful Fool, 1959.
Morris West, The Devil's Advocate, 1959
Julien Green, Each in His Own Darkness, 1960.
William Goyen, The House of Breath, 1960
Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away, 1960.
Shusaku Endo, Volcano, 1960.
Morley Callaghan, The Many Colored Coat, 1960.
Morley Callaghan, A Passion in Rome, 1961.
Edwin O'Connor, The Edge of Sadness, 1962.
J.F. Powers, Morte D'Urban, 1962
Anthony Burgess, The Wanting Seed, 1962.
Shusaku Endo, Silence, 1966.
Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede, 1969.
Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat, 1970.
Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time, 1971.
Julien Green, The Other One, 1971.
William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist, 1971.
Otfried Preussler, The Curse of the Darkling Mill, 1972.
Brian Moore, Catholics: A Novel, 1972.
Jon Hassler, Staggerford, 1977.
Shusaku Endo, The Samurai, 1980.
David Lodge, How Far Can You Go? (Souls and Bodies, USA), 1980.
Walker Percy, The Second Coming, 1980.
Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom, 1982.
Torgny Lindgren, Bathsheba, 1984
Morley Callaghan, Our Lady of the Snows, 1985.
Brian Moore, Black Robe: A Novel, 1985.
Torgny Lindgren, Light, 1987.
Walker Percy, The Thanatos Syndrome, 1987
J.F. Powers, Wheat That Springeth Green, 1988.
Shusaku Endo, Scandal, 1988.
Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington, 1988.
Piers Paul Read, On the Third Day, 1990
Alice Thomas Ellis, The Inn at the Edge of the World, 1990.
Jon Hassler, North of Hope, 1990.
Ayako Sono, No Reason for Murder, 1990.
Ayako Sono, The Watcher from the Shore, 1990.
Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy, 1991.
David Plante, The Accident, 1991.
Sara Maitland, Daughter of Jerusalem, 1995
Laurence Cosse, A Corner of the Veil: A Novel, 1966.
Michael O'Brien, Eclipse of the Sun, 1998.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 2006. William Giraldi, Busy Monsters: A Novel, 2011.

>> No.10293708

>>10293661
You're a shitty writer then if you need to help of an imaginary being to be prolific. kek

>> No.10293715

>>10293708
More like I recognize that the talent I have as a writer is ultimately a gift from God, and that therefore I ought to use it to glorify him and spread the truth of the Gospel.

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>>10293607
The ultimate masterpiece of catholic literature, a truly moving tale about what it means to have faith in Jesus in the modern world.
>>10293671
There are also good but not quite as good.

>> No.10293747

>>10293715
kek, I bet you masturbate everyday and comes here on /lit/ to talk about how great God and christianity is without even applying his teachings in your life. You're nothing more than a pretentious fraud.

>> No.10293844

>>10293747
>you masturbate everyday so you shouldn't believe in God

>> No.10293860

>>10293844
holy keking shit, he really do what I said, mate you're, in the very least, a huge hypocrite and don't truly believe in God, you just use him to give some meaning to a pathetic existence.

>> No.10293942

>>10293860
I'm not even him, your post was just so stupid that I had to reply.

>> No.10294000

>>10293860

can you guys learn english please, thanks

>> No.10294023

>>10293860
God gave me a right hand, didn't he?

>> No.10294881

>>10293671
The Road is Catholic? Really now?

>> No.10295770

Bunch of crap listed above. The only novel worth reading in this regard is Fr. Rolfe's masterpiece, Hadrian the VIIth.

>> No.10295789

>>10293860
holy shit this better be bait

>> No.10295844

Silent American by Graham greene

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>>10293607
Don't worry give me a year I'll fill that empty space

>> No.10296412

>>10293942
>>10294000
>>10294023
>>10295789
Samefag right here folks, you should really have made it less obvious mate.

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>>10293708
>>10293747
>>10293860
>>10296412
His diction makes me suspect a. bait or b. nu-/pol/ newfag to /lit/ that doesn't even read

>> No.10296709

>>10293607
A Canticle for Leibowitz

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>>10296692
what the fuck are you on about? you got so many (you)s because your post was stupid af.

>> No.10299853

>>10293671
>Busy Monsters
This is neither a catholic or well written novel. Giraldi is a supreme hack.