Title: Jesuitin Lisbon: historical novel
Author: Smith, Titus
issue: 1
ed Publisher: Berlin: Ruetten & Loening
Release Date: 1 March 2010
Pages / format: 453 p., 22 cm
ISBN: 978-3-352-00782-8
Binding / Price: PP: EUR 19.95
Tags: Lisbon, Jesuit, religious life, political persecution, History 1755; fiction book illustration
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Lisbon 1755: Europe in the Age of Enlightenment. Still lay charismatic preacher her anathema to all innovations, while Science is always more progress. When an earthquake Lisbon to rubble emerged uses of the Jesuit Father Gabriel Malagrida to the people to pull back to the church. But the young Antero Moreira de Mendonça, once a pupil Malagridas finds himself against the self-proclaimed prophet and searches for the true geological contexts after the quake. This does not, however, for purely scientific reasons. He wants the people with his knowledge of the following Malagridas free, making them free from a life in the fear of God.
Mendonça has one daughter, which he placed after the death of his wife because of his unstable lives with a foster family. Now, both daughters of the house have fallen in love with him, both the beautiful but hard-hearted Leonor, and their self-sacrificing, but shy twin sister, Delilah. Mendonça uses this love to be able to see regularly in the home of the foster family to this matter, because the daughters do not know about the family relationships that drive him there. But do not Mendonça, that Leonor is secretly working as a spy for the Jesuits.
Titus Muller describes in his novel "The Jesuitin Lisbon " detail exactly conditions in the Portuguese port city in the middle of the 18th Century. He has researched the then state of research on earthquakes and meticulously documented in the appendix of his book. And much of what he has discovered about the historical figure Malagridas Gabriel, he can be included in both the novel and in the Annex property. Also noteworthy is the sensible representation of many scenes where you saw, heard, smelled, tasted and felt to be. This is clearly a strength of the authors, who published the "Jesuitin" his seventh novel (and two others were somehow involved).
This is perhaps even Titus Müller the level of what is currently expected to be otherwise on the market of historical novels. Also, I recognize the intent to create the multi-dimensional characters, although I am still the person to a total of woodcut appeared good or evil. He succeeds in historical scenes visually and sensually to bear in mind, and his novel made me curious about the appendix, in which he lays out the historical facts behind the fictional events.
alone: I was able to convince the book. This is mainly because that Mueller is processing in the novel in a theological conflict, but ultimately completely waived during their research has to understand the theological currents of the time or trace at all. So he does indeed always the question of God and its role in current events, his positions remain rhetorical and reflect primarily the Free Church of thinking of Jesus as personal Savior and a loving God the Father, the suffering in the world only because permit because he has given us the freedom to do what we want to do.
extent, the novel gets whenever it content comes to religion, the flair of a treatise of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to which Titus Smith is part, rather than the core theme of the discussion at that time between the church and science, both form and content to ask. This may for born-again Christians be edifying. You may also may qualify one or the other reader's resentment against the faith by reading - and I suppose this was the intention behind the religious discussions in the text. But what I expect of a historical novel, namely me into it to increase in the time and the questions of the time, can "The Jesuitin Lisbon not afford in this way.
felt similarly uncomfortable I am in view of the heroine of the novel. "The Jesuitin", which sounds - probably not accidentally - after the "Pope Joan
. The title plays with the scandal to see a woman holding half of an organization, which is actually only approved for men. It likes the game lead to the expectation of the reader alone therefore be misleading, because the real Joan was Pope Joan as the central person of the Catholic Church, while the fictitious "Jesuitin of Lisbon" in the novel, only a marginal figure represents the action. Women were admitted in the Society of Jesus, only a very short period of time over officially. Now there are several evidence that women had been enrolled in the Sodality secret of the Jesuits, under the hand during certain periods thus quite Jesuit interior could have been active in the Order operates. Leonor, the woman who holds the title alludes to, but only the Father Malagrida contact with the Jesuits, for this worked as a spy, and - as it represents the novel - integrated in any way in the Order, but merely associated. refers Accordingly, in the "Jesuitin Lisbon is no room for an inside view of the controversial religious order, as I would have expected from the title. Quite interesting about the taboo subject of women in Jesuit order is logical to also learn more than a sentence. In my view, has two central points in Titus Müller - both the theological mindset of the time, and the role of women in Jesuit - a thorough search button. That might have worked if he had the book - based on Kleist - "The Lisbon earthquake ", and the plot dispensed with the Jesuits. Robert Harris had in 2003 with the demise of" Pompeii
"extremely successful releases such a novel, which focused entirely on the natural disaster, and in which the intrigues the plots were aimed directly on to highlight the Braxton Hicks contractions of the disaster. Titus Müller, however, has in the "Jesuitin Lisbon exhausted any of his stories really. Both the love story seems a little bloodless, casually says. And the struggle between Malgrida and Mendonça moves over long distances on the plane of a semi-scientific banter, for which Mendonça itself carries out his book research. This problem is possibly exacerbated by the fact that the position of Jesuit Müller Malagrida as not so well lit. We consider the conflict that is only from one side, what little help to understand the two sides of a conflict and to cheer on the chess moves of the two parties. The above basic conflict between religion and science, which I believe is the thematic center of the story moves by on a less tangible, almost academic level, and remains indirect. All in all, I would have wanted the book to another consultant on the side, teased out the obvious with Titus Müller substantive conflicts and the issue the novel would be more structured. Because "The Jesuitin Lisbon would have given quite quickly forgotten more than the entertainment novel, the book has become in this way.
Addendum of 10/05/2010: This review was to me a few days hard to digest, especially since I'm in a first version responded very emotionally to the book - very helpful for the reader, and especially offensive to the authors. Sorry, mea culpa! I hope those who have read the first version, did not become very irritated. Bless ye!
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