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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Patrick Samway, S.J. , Jonathan Montaldo , Jonathan MontaldoPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press Edition: annotated edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.599kg ISBN: 9780268017866ISBN 10: 0268017867 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 27 August 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis volume provides Thomas Merton readers with a unique perspective on his development as a published author and a deepened appreciation of Robert Giroux's role in fostering that development. The book is both a lively and enjoyable read and a significant resource for students and scholars researching various aspects of Merton's prolific writing career. It will lead to new perspectives on and to a more nuanced understanding of the development of Merton's wide-ranging interests in monastic life and religious renewal, in social and political issues, in interreligious dialogue and literary criticism, and in numerous other fields. -Patrick F. O'Connell, editor of Thomas Merton: Selected Essays. Most helpful, and [indispensible] to the success of this book, are Samway's annotations. . . . Who will read this book? Scholars of both Merton and Giroux. Merton fans. I think both groups will be pleased. -- Cistercian Studies Quarterly Few people were as influential in Merton's writing career as Robert Giroux, classmate at Columbia, editor at two publishing houses, critic, confidant, and friend. . . . This collected correspondence runs from 1948 until Merton's death in 1968 and discusses the business connected with the 15 volumes Merton and Giroux worked on. . . . In these letters, readers find the (justifiable) laments concerning censors and religious superiors reluctant to allow publication, often over remarkably trivial concerns. And publishers demonstrated that they could be as contentious, arbitrary, and capricious as any monastic censor. Several exchanges about racism, war, and literature-Giroux was editor for T. S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O'Connor, and Robert Lowell, among many others-allow readers to listen in on the wisdom of two astute observers of mid-20th century society. -- Choice The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton as compiled and edited by the Jesuit scholar Patrick Samway is a must read for the legions of Thomas Merton enthusiasts whose lives have been touched by his writings. This extraordinary collection of correspondence will also prove to be of immense interest to anyone with an interest in the publishing process that Merton engaged in with the editorial assistance and under the influence of Robert Giroux. -- The Midwest Book Review In many ways, the book primarily serves as an important literary and historic record, and will be of great interest to students and scholars looking in detail at Merton's writing career and undertaking research on Merton. -- Modern Believing The letters reveal a lifelong friendship between Merton and Giroux. . . . This is an important contribution to Merton scholarship-a new primary text in the Merton oeuvre. However, it is also a testimony to the brilliance of Robert Giroux, who emerges here as one of Merton's most important interpreters, critics, and collaborators. -- American Catholic Studies This volume provides Thomas Merton readers with a unique perspective on his development as a published author and a deepened appreciation of Robert Giroux's role in fostering that development. The book is both a lively and enjoyable read and a significant resource for students and scholars researching various aspects of Merton's prolific writing career. It will lead to new perspectives on and to a more nuanced understanding of the development of Merton's wide-ranging interests in monastic life and religious renewal, in social and political issues, in interreligious dialogue and literary criticism, and in numerous other fields. -- Patrick F. O'Connell, editor of Thomas Merton: Selected Essays Robert Giroux, a great editor and publisher, was also a great friend, and Thomas Merton's correspondence with him-steady, tight in focus, rich in detail, frankly affectionate-makes clear how fully editing and publishing, for Giroux, was an act of friendship. That is no surprise. The surprise is in seeing, through these letters, how deeply Merton's vast and various body of work was grounded in friendship-in the desire to share all that he had come to know with the people he loved. -- Paul Elie, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own Letters dealing primarily with the business of editing and publishing may not appear to be a promising source of insight, but this collection yields more than might be expected. The correspondence shows how hard Merton was willing to work to make his manuscripts better. -- Commonweal The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton is an important historic record of the emergence and development of one of the great spiritual writers of the twentieth century and of his long friendship and working relationship with one of the great editors of the time. In these letters, carefully and unobtrusively edited and annotated by Patrick Samway, S.J., we see the ups and downs of Merton's literary affairs against the background of the rapid changes taking place both in the church and in the world during these years. With the advent of email and the demise of the art of letter writing, this book is a testament to a fast disappearing era and the immense value to be found in the literary and historical records contained in such exchanges. This volume provides Thomas Merton readers with a unique perspective on his development as a published author and a deepened appreciation of Robert Giroux's role in fostering that development. The book is both a lively and enjoyable read and a significant resource for students and scholars researching various aspects of Merton's prolific writing career. It will lead to new perspectives on and to a more nuanced understanding of the development of Merton's wide-ranging interests in monastic life and religious renewal, in social and political issues, in interreligious dialogue and literary criticism, and in numerous other fields. --Patrick F. O'Connell, editor of Thomas Merton: Selected Essays. Author InformationPatrick Samway, S.J., professor emeritus of English at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, is the author or editor/co-editor of twelve books, including Walker Percy: A Life, selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of 1997. 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