The Grand Inquisitor by John Zmirak
This updating of Dostoevsky's fable will challenge believers of every hue, and fascinate students of religion, philosophy and literature. The first graphic novel written in Miltonic blank verse, is exquisitely illustrated and promises to change the genre forever. The pope is dead. The Church is split. A rump conclave elects the first Black African pope in history, a hero who saved his people from persecution in Sudan. But a hostile cardinal kidnaps the new pope at the airport and holds him in secret at a mental hospital. To the captive, uncrowned pope "the Grand Inquisitor" lays out a dark conspiracy he has nurtured for 50 years to offer mankind salvation without the Cross. Will the new pope sign on to this "improved" version of Christianity? Will he end up dead? What obsessions join him to his enemy, and make his new vision so very tempting?
"Zmirak's work is typically. . well, not typical. . . . Carla Millar's illustrations bring flesh and blood to the text. The result is a sort of action movie in Miltonic verse." --InsideCatholic.com
John Zmirak received his BA from Yale University in 1986, then his MFA in screenwriting and fiction and his PhD in English in 1996 from Louisiana State University. He has taught composition at LSU and screenwriting at Tulane University, and has written screenplays for and with director Ronald Maxwell (Gods & Generals and Gettysburg).His essays, poems, and other works have appeared in First Things, the Weekly Standard, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, the American Conservative, the South Carolina Review, The Atlantic, Modern Age, the Intercollegiate Review, the New Republic, Commonweal, and the National Catholic Register, among other venues. He has contributed to American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought. From 2000 to 2004 he served as senior editor of Faith & Family Magazine and a reporter at the National Catholic Register. He works now as an editor for several publishing companies, including ISI. He lives in his native New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780824524357 |
| ISBN 10 | 0824524357 |
| Title | The Grand Inquisitor |
| Author | John Zmirak |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Crossroad Publishing Company |
| Year published | 2008-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 76 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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