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His name is Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit missionary come from Europe to the New World to bring the word of God to the heathen. He is given minimal aid by the governor of the vast territory that is proudly named New France but is in reality still ruled by the Huron, Iroquois, and Algonkin tribes who have roamed it since the dawn of time and whom the French call Savages. His mission is to reach and bring salvation to an isolatied Huron tribe decimated by disease in the far north before incoming winter closes off his path to them. His guides are a group of Savages who mock his faith and their pledges even as they accept muskets as their payment.
Father Laforgue is about to enter a world of pagan power and sexual license, awesome courage and terrible cruelty, that will test him to the breaking point as both a man and a priest, and alter him in ways he cannot dream.
In weaving a tautly suspenseful tale of physical and spiritual adventure in a wilderness frontier on the cusp of change, Brian Moore has written a novel that rivals Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in its exploration of the confrontation between Western ideology and native peoples, and its meditation upon Good and Evil in the human heart.
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Brian Moore is the author of nineteen novels, including The Statement, No Other Life, Lies Of Silence and The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne. Mr. Moore was short-listed three times for Britain's Booker Prize. He passed away in 1999.
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In the introduction to his novel, 'Black Robe', Brian Moore says he got his factual information from a collection of letters that the Jesuit missionaries sent home from early Quebec. That's fortunate since his portrayal of the Iroquois and other Amerinds of the 17-century would otherwise seem slanderous.
For those who aren't familiar with the plot, Father Laforgue - a Jesuit misssionary - is sent by his house on a journey from Quebec up the St. Lawrence to the Huron territory in the early 17th century. He is to replace another priest at the misson there who may have been killed. He travels by canoe with a group of Algonquin who have been charged with his protection by Samuel Champlain. Along the journey, he is abandoned by most of the Algonquin, and he and his remaining companions are captured by the Iroquois. After escaping, he finally reaches his destination.
I came to the novel via the film, and, despite the brutality protrayed in it, the director left out the most graphic scenes. Rather than simply killing Chomina's 10-year-old son, the Iroquois cook and eat the child in front of his father and sister. Father Laforgue masturbates when he stumbles on Daniel and Anuka mating in the forest. Anuka performs oral sex upon another Frenchman - who has gone native - in front of Daniel. The translation of the Amerinds' speech is as filled with scatological terms as that of a contemporary teenager (which makes them sound perversely modern). The Algonquin allow their children to have sex with each other and with the Frenchmen.
Obviously, Laforgue finds all of this more than shocking and has trouble maintaining his faith in face of such insults to his beliefs. When he finally reaches the Huron village, he has been traumatized to the extent that he can no longer feel the fervor that first inspired him. In this, the film departs from the novel by suggesting that Laforgue never wavers from his convictions.
Moore has portrayed a moment in history in which deep beliefs clash in mutual incomprehension. As the Huron elder says to Father Laforgue: "I was a good friend to Andehoua [another Jesuit], and it grieves me that he was killed. But listen, Blackrobe. I am speaking against you today. You and your god do not suit our people. Your ways are not our ways. If we adopt them we will be neither Norman nor Huron. And soon our enemies will know our weaknesses and wipe us from the earth". But the ways that the elder is defending include cannibalism and wife-abandonment. And the Amerind society of the time had no place for the sick, the weak, the deformed, the crippled, or the very old. A culture without pity since pity is one of the weaknesses to which the elder refered.
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das buch entführt in eine andere welt. sehr glaubwürdig (auf basis historischer aufzeichnungen französischer jesuiten-missionare) wird die kultur der indianer vermittelt. drastisch und grausam, sensibel und herzlich, voller faszinierender widersprüche. ein forderndes gegenbild zu unserer gegewartskultur. sehr empfehlenswert auch die verfilmung, falls man sie irgendwo finden kann.
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Brian Moore's fine novel, Black Robe, serves as a startling case study of conflicting world and life views between Huron, Iriquois, and Algonkin "Savages" and the religiously civilized "Blackrobed" Jesuits. Based in part on the 'Relations', extant reports from letters the Jesuits sent back home to France which contained moving descriptions of their efforts to understand and convert the "Savages", the book supplies an inquiring reader with ample material for reflection on the nature of the complexity of cross-cultural human understanding and communication. The reader is afforded the luxury of seeing starkly different interpretations of life events and objects juxtapositioned in an easily comprehensible narrative. Hats off to Moore for providing an accessible story which serves as a mirror on our own finitude; human nature is what it is regardless of twenty-first century window dressing. Technological advancement belies the magnitude of complexity in understanding oneself and conversing with one's world neighbors. Reality is what it used to be.
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Disturbing, Enthralling
A deep, disturbing, thoughtful novel of New France, the very early years of what we now call Canada. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. März 2000 von Ben Kilpela
An Honest, if Sickening, Depiction of Our History
I was originally assigned the book as a project for school, and decided I would just watch the movie, but I was captivated by the story and just had to read the novel. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. März 2000 von Leah
Iroquois cannibalism uncovered
The reason this book is important for me it's that for the first time I met the description of Iroquois cannibalism. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Oktober 1999 von Zordan Lorenzo
Details only Moore can bring out.
For those who enjoy feeling transported to another time, another life, this is a beautiful and painful look at life in Canada when the "Savages" and the Christians met... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. November 1997 von kltornberg@aol.com
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