| Author Quoted | Jacques Maritain |
| Title Quoted | paysan de la Garonne : un vieux laïc s'interroge à propos du temps present |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1967/06/10 |
| Imprint | Paris : Desclee de Brouwer. 1966 |
| Quotation | Then there is the ms. of the English translation of Maritain's Le Paysan de la Garonne. It is painful. I am sorry I told him I liked the French edition - for it does have some good insights no doubt, but it is not a good book. In its own way it, too, is tedious journalism. Why did he have to feel bound to get involved in this utterly stupid controversy? I made the same mistake (less controversially) with Redeeming the Time. As if I too had to be "heard." (Fortunately I let it be published in England, only then changed my mind.) |
| Journal | Learning to love: exploring solitude and freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6, 1966-1967.; Edited by Christine M. Bochen. / [San Francisco] : HarperCollins. 1997, p. 248 |
| Link to Merton's Copy |
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