Blood Red, Sister Rose
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Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974) is a novel by Australian writer Thomas Keneally.[1]
Story outline
The novel explores the imagined psychology of Joan of Arc, and tells her story from Domrémy to the coronation of Charles VII of France in Rheims. Significant secondary characters include Charles and Gilles de Rais. The novel enters into the minds of Joan and Charles but not of Gilles. A notable feature of the book is the conversations of Joan with her voices.
Critical reception
Kirkus Reviews noted about the novel: "This is probably Keneally's magnum opus, but like other culminating masterpieces its fictional components have been foreshadowed in his earlier, more modest novels. Again Keneally examines the predicament of the wise fools of this world, the forthright blunderers who, unlike the Establishment, take account of the realities of human suffering and cosmic bewilderment."[2]
Veronica Brady, in her essay reviewing a number of Keneally novels noted that the author's Joan is "an Australian version of the French heroine, and her predicament reflects a tension central to a culture in which relationships to history on the one hand and to the environment on the other remain ambivalent."[3]
See also
- 1974 in Australian literature
Notes
- Dedication: To my dear daughters Margaret and Jane.
References
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- The Place at Whitton (1964)
- The Fear (1965)
- Bring Larks and Heroes (1967)
- Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968)
- The Survivor (1969)
- A Dutiful Daughter (1971)
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972)
- Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974)
- Moses the Lawgiver (1975)
- Gossip from the Forest (1975)
- Season in Purgatory (1976)
- A Victim of the Aurora (1977)
- Passenger (1979)
- Confederates (1979)
- The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980)
- Schindler's Ark (1982)
- A Family Madness (1985)
- The Playmaker (1987)
- Act of Grace (1988)
- By the Line (1989)
- Towards Asmara (1989)
- Flying Hero Class (1991)
- Chief of Staff (1991)
- Woman of the Inner Sea (1993)
- Jacko: The Great Intruder (1993)
- A River Town (1995)
- Bettany's Book (2000)
- An Angel in Australia (2000)
- The Tyrant's Novel (2003)
- The Widow and Her Hero (2007)
- The People's Train (2009)
- The Daughters of Mars (2012)
- Shame and the Captives (2014)
- Napoleon's Last Island (2015)
- Crimes of the Father (2016)
- The Soldier's Curse (2016)
- The Unmourned (2017)
- The Power Game (2018)
- Two Old Men Dying (2018)
- The Ink Stain (2019)
- The Dickens Boy (2020)
- Corporal Hitler's Pistol (2021)
- Fanatic Heart (2022)