Robert: A Clerical Novel by Adolf FuchsAuthorHouse, 2005 M02 8 - 528 pages In the novel’s Preface, the Author states:
“In a few short words, the content of the book is this: A boy dedicates himself to the clerical profession with the fire of childlike enthusiasm, the youth goes astray in his profession, and the man, ‘because not all flowering dreams ripened,’ has the notion of giving it up and ‘fleeing to the desert.’ Yet Heaven has decided otherwise. With resignation he comes back to himself and begins again to believe in his calling. Besides this, everything which is presented in the book belongs partly to the characteristics of the hero appearing in it, partly to the characteristics of our time chiefly with regard to religious, ecclesiastical, and especially clerical matters.” |
From inside the book
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... eyes of many surrounding him and finally in his father's eyes, what he had never seen before, tears. Then he himself began to cry bitterly. The Superintendent, however, seemed to him like a superior being, and he could hardly reconcile ...
... eye hung continuously on the speaker's features. Unceasingly he accompanied his father's changes in expression with those of his own, and his arm jerked as often as his father's rose in the fire of the speech. When he went out of the ...
... eyes entirely and half see the other one — that is to say, whenever he looked in her direction. At first, however, that did not happen, and later on at most only once or twice during the hour, and then only after a lengthy struggle also ...
... eyes in the necessary direction. Even from such a well-calculated journey to Mecca, most of the time he turned back ... eye fell on one of his silver-plated coat buttons and — oh, wonder! — in it he caught sight of the dear face. Deeply ...
... eye and gently touched his cheeks. That cut the poor lad through the heart. He never passed by there again, and it was good that his father sent him away soon thereafter, so that he would become a man versed in theology and later, if ...