Private Memoirs 个人论文集
作者： James Hogg 著
出版社：Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1999-12-1
简介：In the early years of the 18th century,Scotland is torn by religious and political strife.Hogg's sinner,justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained,is suspected of involvement in a series of bizarre and ideous crimes.A century later his memoirs reveal the extraordinary,macabre truth.The tale is chilling for its astute psychological accuracy as it illuustrates,with power and economy,the dire effect of self-righteous bigotry on a fanatical character. In the first half of his new introduction David Blair provides a detailed explanation of the historical and religious contexts of Hogg's novel.In the second half he probes the book's brillliant,complex engagement with issues of identity,history and narrative itself.
