The Private Memoirs and Confessions Of A Justified Sinner

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James Hogg`s most ambitious prose work, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of  a Justified Sinner, is now widely acclaimed as his masterpiece.

In the early years of the 18th cintury, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg`s sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of involvement in a series of bizarre and hideous crimes. A century later his memoirs reveal the extraordinary, macabre truth. The tale is chilling for its astute psychological accuracy as il illustrates, with power and economy, the dire effect of self-righteous bigotry on a fanatical character.

In the fist half of his new introduction David Blair provides a detailed explanation of the historical and religious bigotry on a fanatical character. In the first half of his new introduction David Blair provides a detailed explanation of the historical and religious contexts of Hogg`s novel. In the second half he probes the book`s brilliant, complex engagement with issues of identity, history and narrative itself.