Diary of a Country Priest: Chapters 3-4

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Join David, Heidi, and Sean as they discuss insomnia, despair, the spiritual dark night of the soul, and much, much more found in Bernanos’ deeply contemplative novel.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm David Kern.
0:03.9	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.5	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:07.0	You're listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing sin.
0:13.2	We're discussing the diary of a country priest.
0:18.0	And we're going to talk about chapters three and four this week.
0:22.5	So we're about halfway through the book in this section.
0:26.9	I was thinking about where to begin with this conversation.
0:30.5	And a number of possibilities came to mind.
0:33.2	I could ask such questions as the following.
0:36.0	I could ask questions like, what is this book about?
0:39.6	Or does this book have a plot? Or how do you help people who are having trouble with this book?
0:46.1	Or is this book a book that mainly Catholics and Orthodox people are going to appreciate?
0:54.3	That just seems like it would need a case study.
0:56.0	I could ask all kinds of questions like that.
0:57.9	I could ask questions about the prose.
0:59.9	I could ask about specific scenes and specific lines.
1:02.4	But this is where I want to start.
1:04.4	This is what I was thinking about.
1:06.1	And I need you to help me unravel this conundrum that I've been having and reading it.
1:11.8	Okay?
1:12.2	Can we start there?
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