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| Literary critic Alan Jacobs says that a disturbing aspect of novelist Philip Pullman's brilliantly written "His Dark Materials" trilogy is that Pullman creates "counterfactual" history of the Church. The idea of the Church and of authority mean tyranny to Pullman, according to Jacobs, and he continually expresses a universal sympathy for the marginal and the oppressed, regardless of other ethical considerations. Jacobs also says that in Pullman's world, everything associated with Christianity and the Church is bad, with no exceptions. |
Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" Trilogy, includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass (pictured). |
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Alan Jacobs has contributed to multiple editions of the Journal; click here for his record.
 Alan Jacobs has also been featured on the MARS HILL AUDIO Conversations "Decadent Immortals: Alan Jacobs on Anne Rice" and "The Public Poetry of W. H. Auden." Short descriptions of these Conversations are listed here. In addition, MARS HILL AUDIO has recorded Jacobs's A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age. A description of the book is available here. A chapter about C. S. Lewis from Jacobs's A Visit to Vanity Fair is published on the MARS HILL AUDIO Anthology, The Christian Mind of C. S. Lewis. For more information about it, click here. |
Fantasy Fiction
Pullman, Philip
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