![]() ![]() ![]() A remarkable, deeply unfashionable book of essays, "The Death of Adam" (1998), in which Robinson passionately defended John Calvin and American Puritanism, among other topics, suggested that, far from suffering writer's block, Robinson was exploring thinker's flow: she was moving at her own speed, returning repeatedly to theological questions and using the essay to hold certain goods that, for one reason or another, had not yet found domicile in fictional form.īut here is a second novel, and it is no surprise to find that it is religious, somewhat essayistic and fiercely calm. It is a mind as religious as it is literary - perhaps more religious than literary - in which silence is itself a quality, and in which the space around words may be full of noises. But Marilynne Robinson, whose last (and first) novel, "Housekeeping," appeared in 1981, seems to have the kind of sensibility that is sanguine about intermittence. TO bloom only every 20 years would make, you would think, for anxious or vainglorious flowerings. ![]()
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