THE CONVERTS

by Rex Warner ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 12, 1967

Although it was a fable, Warner's The Acrodrome had a certain hold on human motives and desires. His latest work, a historical novel about the conversion of Augustine, is a leaden monologue about simulated people in a twilight world of intellectual conjecture. Ironically enough, Warner has attempted to deal with motives and desires and the vehicle is the diary of Augustine's friend Alypius. Alypius chronicles his own diffident emotions about sex, careers, philosophy, religion and Life, although his main concern is the agony Augustine endures when forced to reject his mistress on the advice of his mother. Faint impressions of the late Empire period filter through descriptions of political decadence and religious turmoil of the times but these two men who abandoned fame, fortune and pleasure to become Christian ascetics are mired in Warner's stultifying prose.

Pub Date: June 12, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown-A.M.P.

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION