Converted Writers – Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief

In this book Joseph Pearce talks about the so-called "Converted Writers" such as CS Lewis, GK Chesterton, TS Eliot or Hilaire Belloc, among others. The 20th century has been marked by very strong ideological clashes that influenced the way of thinking of its most lucid characters, among whom, without a doubt, are the writers. Joseph Pearce studies in this extensive book the repercussions that the theories of Marx and Nietzsche had on writers such as Bernard Schaw or HG Wells and many others, and how, in that environment, an important artistic and spiritual renaissance took place that reached intellectuals and artists who, from the Anglo-Saxon world, exercised and continue to exercise notable influence in the world of culture. These are the writers that Pearce calls "converted writers", among whom are CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Evelyn Waugh, Chesterton, TS Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, Malcolm Muggeridge, Ronald Knox, Robert Benson, Dorothy Sayers, Edith Sitwell, Maurice Baring, Siegfred Sassoon, etc., whose lives intersect with actors such as Alec Guinness and Ernest Milton. An era strongly marked by the disbelief of a materialist philosophy was offered the counterweight of a deeper literature, charged with transcendent values, inspired by Christianity and which constituted a "network" of sensitive intelligences, which generated a cultural renaissance, a new testimony of the creative force of Christianity that was also experienced, sometimes tormented, by last-minute converts such as Oscar Wilde, suffering two world wars that destroyed the lives of most of them. This is a book full of life and experiences. of very varied characters, who found in the Christian faith the reason for their lives and, with different styles, captured it in art.

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