The novel A Canticle for Leibowitz begins in the deserts of the American Southwest, some centuries after nuclear war devastates the earth. There, generations of Catholic monks copy and preserve the ...
America Magazine: The crux of religious belief: Walter Miller Jr.’s ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
The crux of religious belief: Walter Miller Jr.’s ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
Chicago Tribune: What was the name of that book? Readers tell me, ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
What was the name of that book? Readers tell me, ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr is a masterpiece of science fiction. It won the 1961 Hugo Award and has never been out of print, running to over 25 editions. The book’s three stories, ...
In the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, reckless world leaders have wiped out civilization in a win-at-all-costs nuclear war. The novel opens a few hundred years after this holocaust, with monstrous ...
Few who have read the winner of the 1961 Hugo award, A Canticle For Leibowitz, will have failed to recognise its influence on Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Yet when that latter book was garnering its ...
Leibowitz was an Orthodox Jew who held controversial views on the subject of halakha, or Jewish law. He wrote that the sole purpose of religious commandments was to obey God, and not to receive any kind of reward in this world or the world to come.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994) was one of the most outspoken and controversial twentieth century Jewish thinkers and Israeli public intellectuals.