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The Luminous I

If you should pick up Marilynne Robinson's Absence of Mind, I suggest that you begin at the end. This is not simply because Robinson writes wonderfully provocative closing lines, although she does. Every time I read the final sentence of her introduction to the Vintage edition of Calvin's selected works, I'm tempted to applaud: "Behind the aesthetics and the metaphysics of classical American literature, again and again we find the Calvinist soul, universal in its singularity, and full of Calvinist…
Susan Felch
April 1, 2011