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by: James Hogg  EAN: 9781857151268 Edition: New Ed Format: Import ISBN: 1857151267 Label: Everyman's Library Manufacturer: Everyman's Library Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: November 26, 1992 Publisher: Everyman's Library Studio: Everyman's Library Related Items:
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 Rating:  - THis book is awesome. I loved the comedic narrative that starts off the book; it's a colorful and richly detailed black comedy that youd expect from HAWTHORN- making fun of the clash between overly zealous religious funamentalists and more earthy rural folk. As the story progresses it decends into a dramatic/tragic tone that I would compare to CHARLES BROCKDON BROWN. then the story breaks into the second part. THe change to the killers perspective/narrative is a huge unexpected leap that I ... Read More Rating: - DopplegangerIs Robert a schizophrenic to be pitied or a psychopath to be loathed? Similar to Dostoyevsky's psychodrama, The Double, we find the exhileration of the psyche brought bare before our perusal. James Hogg's two part account of a "sinner" (a predestined and chosen one albeit) is on surface a derisive gothic narrative of the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination. The taut trance-like animated lustre it creates is exceptionally haunting. The author succeeds in invoking the sublime and supernatural ... Read More Rating:  - Synopsis: A supernatural psychological thrillerThe story of James Hogg's "Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" describes events 100 years before Hogg's own lifetime, and revolves around Robert Wringhim, a young man with a questionable paternal origin, and confused religious principles. His mother and her husband George Colwan have fathered his older half-brother George, but Robert appears to be the product of his mother's unchastity with the fanatic Revd Robert Wringhim. This minister becomes his surrogate father and mentor, and ... Read More Rating:  - Completely Misrepresents Predestination & Runs Many a Rabbit Trail!I tried to like this novel because as one who believes in predestination, I thought it would show some of the opposing arguments in fictional form; it failed to do this. James Hogg merely shows us a deranged human being (nothing new there!) who murders because he feels that he is 'destined for heaven' no matter what he does. Yes, he might have been saved from the fires of hell, but it would have been by God's grace, not by his own good or evil works. Isn't this what the New Testament is all about-grace ... Read More Rating: - None betterThe depth of this novel is amazing. Visit Edinburgh on a misty night and you will see it is not set in the past. 
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