RARA-AVIS: Buddhism in Stansberry's The Confession

From: William Denton ( buff@pobox.com)
Date: 14 Nov 2004


I just finished THE CONFESSION (2004) by Dominic Stansberry, and enjoyed it quite a bit. Mr. Bludis who called this middle-class noir last month
[1]. It's got the classic noir feel right from the start.

There are a number of mentions of Buddhism in it: a Laughing Buddha statue, for example, and a few other things (though I may be adding some that weren't there, because I just read a magazine review of two books about Buddhism). Anyone care to comment on them and what they're there for? It all deals with Jake Danser's, uh, personality problems, but why Buddhism?

Bill

[1] http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/200410/0231.html

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William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.



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