Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Start Publishing)

✍ Scribed by James Hogg

• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC;Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
• Year: 2013;2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 151 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1504034635

✦ Synopsis

On the surface, this novel is a simple tale of a young man who encounters a shape-shifting devil, an early manifestation of a doppelganger, and the various misadventures that follow. This novel was perhaps the first post modern novel; it employs clustered narratives, self-reflexive point-of-view, unreliable narrators, and an unsympathetic-protagonist. This is indeed a landmark novel.

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Review

We are left to our own imaginations and our own devices to piece together what exactly happened in and around the lands of Delcastle in the early 1700s. This, in short, is the essence of Hogg's genius.... [Hogg] will take his place beside James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Dostoevsky and D. H. Lawrence. If you have read him, read him again in this new, unedited, and thoroughly annotated version. If you've never read him, you should.

(Kay Gardner AB Bookman's Weekly)

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner retains its place as an astonishing 'classic' of nineteenth-century fiction.

(Rhona Brown Scotia 1900-01-00)

Review

"Adrian Hunter's thorough introduction and detailed annotations make this an essential edition for all students of Hogg's great novel. Like other Broadview titles, it also contains a number of auxiliary materials, such as contemporary reviews and a chronology, that will greatly enhance the reader's appreciation." (Duncan Wu )

"Hunter's introduction is well-informed in terms both of the novel's intellectual context and current critical approaches, while the 1824-based text offers a clear reading version of the novel as originally published. Especially valuable are the volume's appendices, with their well-chosen selections from earlier and contemporary writings relating to key aspects such as theological background, gothic fiction, and mental illness." (Peter D. Garside )

"Hunter's edition of Hogg's Confessions is simply the best paperback edition currently available. His introductory essay sets out the idiosyncratic historical, theological and literary contexts of this marvellous novel in a lucid and authoritative manner, drawing on his intimate knowledge of recent Hogg scholarship." (Simon Kövesi )

"Hunter presents the Confessions with accuracy and care, placing welcome emphasis on the deliberately perplexing nature of the work and Hogg's desire to unsettle and challenge us as readers." (Meiko O'Halloran )