At Doxacon Seattle 2014 this past weekend, I heard presentations by Orthodox speakers about literature and faith; they mostly used examples from Catholic authors such as Tolkien and Chesterton and also the Anglican CS Lewis. (Ironically, in my presentation, I looked a lot at Dostoevsky.)Thesis: there is a lot of excellent classical literature by Catholics (Dante, Manzoni, Hugo, Cervantes, Chaucer,et al) available in English. Why is there not more Eastern literature? Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn are great, but limited. Why not more Serb, Romanian, Ukrainian, Greek, Lebanese, etc?
PS: I am basing this on the assumption that some people read other things than theology and Church history. Forming the imagination is crucial to a culture.
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