![]() ![]() It was renowned in the 19th century Verdi called it a “gift to humanity” and dedicated his great Requiem to the novelist’s memory. It’s been titled The Betrothed in many of its English translations. ![]() Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi was written in the 1820s. My preferred candidate is Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian writer, scholar, and poet, who only published one novel. Dostoevsky is perhaps a better candidate, yet I think of him as a novelist of the anguished soul. Marilynne Robinson and Sigrid Undset’s books are fundamentally about family dynamics, and deal with larger social issues through that lens. Graham Greene was interested in unsettled characters, alienated from society. ![]() Is there a great Christian social novelist? The acknowledged masters-Dickens, Hugo, and Tolstoy-were geniuses with a certain respect for religion, but they weren’t orthodox. ![]()
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