Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner A Scottish Gothic Classic of Fanaticism, Murder, and Divided Identity
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.04.2018
Verlag
Smk BooksSeitenzahl
156
Maße (L/B/H)
23,5/15,7/1,3 cm
Gewicht
387 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5154-3535-8
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is James Hogg's extraordinary Gothic novel of religious fanaticism, murder, delusion, and divided identity. Robert Wringhim, raised in a severe Calvinist household and convinced of his own election, falls under the influence of the mysterious Gil-Martin, a double-like figure whose encouragement turns spiritual certainty into violence. Told through conflicting accounts, editorial framing, and Wringhim's own confession, the novel unsettles the boundary between supernatural temptation, madness, moral corruption, and self-deception. First published anonymously in 1824, Hogg's novel stands as one of the most original works in Scottish and British Gothic fiction. It is at once a psychological mystery, a religious satire, a study of antinomian extremity, and an early experiment in unreliable narration and metafictional form. Its power lies in refusing a single easy explanation: Gil-Martin may be devil, double, hallucination, manipulator, or projection, and the reader is left inside the same unstable moral world that destroys Wringhim. Project Gutenberg summarises the central plot as the story of Robert Wringhim, a fervent Calvinist who believes himself justified in killing those he deems damned. For readers of Gothic fiction, Scottish literature, psychological fiction, religious satire, and nineteenth-century literary classics, Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner remains disturbing, brilliant, and startlingly modern: a novel of faith turned monstrous, conscience silenced by certainty, and evil given the intimate face of the self.
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