![]() ![]() Jeremiah's grandfather from The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by JT LRoy Like Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry or Harry Crews's nameless gospel singer, this renegade advocate for a church without God is a kind of prototype Johnny Rotten. ![]() ![]() O'Connor's book lurches between carny slapstick and black brimstone. Hazel Motes from Wise Blood by Flannery O'ConnorĪ travelling preacher's grandson traumatised by the Second World War, Motes embodies the drifter spirit of American DIY religiosity gone awry. But the source book, drafted in a mind-boggling six weeks, is a wonder: magical, lyrical and taut. Many will know Charles Laughton's 1955 film adaptation, featuring a screenplay by James Agee, cinematography by Stanley Cortez and a colossal performance by Robert Mitchum as the widow-killing preacher with "love" and "hate" tattooed on his fists. Grubb's 1953 debut novel is halfway between Huck Finn's river of dreams and the dark woods of Grimm's fairy tales. Harry Powell from Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb ![]() Enoch's character has many fathers: the thundering preachers included on the Sermons disc of the Goodbye Babylon box set, Robert Duvall in The Apostle, the many novels that take the figure of the false prophet, Simoniac, or tormented preacher as their archetype.Ĭonsider, if you will, my nominations for the 10 baddest pastors in literature. ![]()
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