Confessions of St. Augustine
Language: English
Published by Iconoclast Publishing January 2013, 2013
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Confessions of St. Augustine
- Author
- James F. Mueller
- Publisher
- Iconoclast Publishing January 2013
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0985639008
- ISBN 13
- 9780985639006
- Illustrator
- James F. Mueller
- Seller catalogs
- Art
Set against the background of drawings and paintings as diverse as Daumier and Degas, Hopper and Homer, the story's woven together in such a way it can be only be described as a unique hybrid--a literary novel and an art book that has no rival in the history of the novel! Colorful. Original. Outrageous!--The voice of a Holden Caulfield, Alexander Portnoy, Robin Williams, Jack Nicholson AND YES--EVEN A SAMUEL L.JACKSON! (for starters) but the yin and yang of modern man in all of his bipolar glory--wavering between Augustine and Auschwitz, Sartre and certainty--heaven or hell...--but desperately searching for meaning with little more than his words and his art as a means to express it. A wild, manic, full-throttle ride through our subconscious dreamscapes.
From New York to LA, from Miami to the deserts of Arizona, The Confessions of St. Augustine takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of emotions, places, and changes--from the portrait of the artist as a young man to his final apocalyptic vision of America, the world and ultimately life itself.
The Confessions of St. Augustine is a trilogy (The Mendicant, The Militant, and The Missionary) chronicling the spiritual journey of an artist in the latter half of the 20th century to the present, narrated and illustrated by the artist himself.
Sometimes spokesman, sometimes dreamer, sometimes Walter Mitty with a paint brush, Augustine Schmitt paints an America we've all believed in at one time or another. But whether it's really just kitsch, camp, or commercialism, however, is another story. Because running counterpoint to this paean to the America of our youth is the voice of a Holden Caulfield grown up into an Alexander Portnoy debunking the very America he's now painting. Masking his talent with a "wise guy" façade, he finds more justification creating chaos out of "order" than order out of chaos. Thus the title of the first section of the first novel: "Portrait of an American Wiseguy."
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