June 30, 2022
Joshua Fullen returns to talk about his debut novel. Infinite retreat.
“A few years after graduating from St. Marquis College, Blake Yurick fled Milwaukee with his family and bounced around from job to job, working in the Bakken oil fields in the Dakotas and even signing on as a night caretaker at a rural monastery cemetery. Blake, who was heavily in debt as a student and estranged from his misanthropic, alcoholic father, is known for his memories of his mother’s death, his mentor during his college days, and his adventurous theological thinking. He is also troubled by a relationship with a priest named Theo Hape., He is a mesmerizing power that he wields over his students. When Hape learns of his former handler’s desperate plight and proposes a perverse exchange of services, Blake is inspired to put his professor’s radical theories to the test in real life. What follows is a metaphysical duel reminiscent of the novels of Dostoyevsky and Bernanos, pitting a modern-day Antichrist against a reckless but resilient young man and his well-meaning, dysfunctional kin. ” (Publisher’s explanation)
This book is particularly timely in its philosophical themes, as it touches on the theme of metaphysical deconstruction used as a cover for sexual grooming in the world of education.
Thomas and Joshua are the novel’s unlocked Jesuit villains, the protagonists’ escape from a philosophy that makes good dependent on evil and erases the line between the two, and the book’s themes of financial and metaphysical debt; Discuss the humorous tone and Freyn’s unusual associative prose. style.
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joshua fren Infinite retreat https://www.angelicopress.org/infinite-regress-joshua-hren
wise blood book https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of St. Thomas
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