Jan 12, 2022
T.C. Merrill’s debut novel, Minor Indignities, is an
evocative portrayal of the self-importance of undergraduate life at an Ivy
League college. Its protagonist, a freshman consumed with what
others consider him intellectually, socially and sexually, solely
makes a idiot of himself the extra he strains to impress. The novel
finally turns into a richness of embarrassments whose closing
disaster illustrates the saying of St. Bernard: “Humiliation is
the best way to humility.”
Merrill joins the present to speak about his novel, his essay “The
State of affairs of the Catholic Novelist”, Waugh’s Brideshead
Revisited, how a fiction author ought to method depicting
sexuality, the relation between artwork and emotion, and René
Girard.
Watch interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xH1Fm6C9i7E
Hyperlinks
Minor Indignities
https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/retailer/p103/minor-indignities-by-trevor-cribben-merrill.html
“The State of affairs of the Catholic Novelist”
https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/retailer/p116/The-State of affairs-of-the-Catholic-Novelist.html
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