About this title: To Father Paul, the Algonkian Indians are pagans in need of salvation. To the Indians, Catholic priests are greedy and selfish. Accompanying Father Paul on his mission to relieve a priest in danger of his life, Daniel is torn between the need to serve God and the power of the Indian way of life.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Books
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780449209479ISBN:0449209474
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780449209479ISBN:0449209474
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Plume
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780452278653ISBN:0452278651
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"While an excellent read in itself, I found this work especially illuminating when read in conjunction with Alan Greer's selections from the Jesuit Relations, the historical backbone to the novel.
A work of historical fiction, the novel narrates the journey of one French Jesuit, Fr. Larogue, and his young French lay servant, from Quebec to a Jesuit mission deep in Huron country. A band of Algonquin natives guide Fr. Larogue towards his destination. They do so, however, not in a spirit of goodwill, and in their closed confidence they, increasingly filled with disgust and fear, conspire against Fr. Larogue and his companion.
Some reviewers of Black Robe bemoan that Brian depicts sex and vulgarity to excess. I disagree. Brian rather captures Native American norms and the humanity of the native people. Brian's situation of English curses in Algonquin tongues effectively connects the Algonquins and the French as human beings with the same passions and similar irritations--thereby keeping the two people on the same ground, elevating neither above the other.
Simultaneously, Brian, through a narrative succession of peeves, makes the reader confront foundational differences between native and European core values. Fr. Larogue becomes troubled at the sexual promiscuity around him, and at his own falling into sexual sin. The native Algonquins see priestly celibacy and the French disregard for how they interact with nature as stupid. The Jesuits seek common ground, and yet the native people live according to their own rules, their perception of reality remaining disparate to that of the French Jesuits."
"This is the sort of the novel where you can read the novel once, and then watch the movie, and then read the novel, and then watch the movie, etc.
read and watch a few times and it will help you imagine early contacts between the Europeans (in this case the French) and the American Indians (in this case Algonquin)."
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