“Is of course the most important religious novel of the year, though, to be frank, it is less a novel than a protest. Purely as fiction it lags far behind his earlier work.” Mary Moss.
| + + − | Atlan. 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 310w. |
“‘The saint’ stirs up in the heart so much that is worthy and generous that one is apt to look leniently upon its technical shortcomings.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 35: 121. Ja. ’07. 230w. |
Fogazzaro, Antonio. The sinner, tr. from the Italian by M. Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–18183.
The soul of Piero Maironi, the sinner, is rent thruout these pages by the conflict within him of sensuality and asceticism. His young wife is living, but in an asylum hopelessly insane. He strives to be true to her memory but is beset by temptations of the flesh until in his spiritual struggle he develops a religious mania which leads him to give his wealth to the poor and devote his life to God. His sufferings are thrown upon a background of the Italian, political, social and religious life of today.
“It must be acknowledged that Miss Prichard-Agnetti’s task has been a hard one, and she has acquitted herself, if not as well as possible, at least very fairly. The author’s masterly faculty of delineating character is displayed in the studies, not only of the important personages of his story, but of household dependants and all the many minor characters of the book.”
| + | Acad. 72: 394. Ap. 20, ’07. 890w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 177. O. ’07. |