Impossible to Say: Representing Religious Mystery in Fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick, and O'Connor, Vol. 12 »

L. LAMAR NISLY is Associate Professor of English at Bluffton College. He has published in such journals as Studies in American Jewish Literature and Journal for Peace and Justice Studies.

Links the Jewish fiction of Malamud and Ozick with the Catholic fiction of Percy and O'Connor to study the representation of religious mystery in works by these authors.

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Nisly (English, Bluffton College) pairs two writers from Catholic and two from Judaic tradition to examine similar representations of religious mystery among them. He finds that the religious mystery of both Catholicism and rabbinic Judaism occupies a middle position between rationality and indeterminacy, and focuses his study on that dimension that is beyond final explanation but maintain a firm foundation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)