Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

5. The book jumps from Augustine's conversion to the end of his life with de Wohl skipping over the events of the intervening years in summary fashion. Why do you think de Wohl took this approach? Would you have had him finish the book in a different way?

John wrote: "5. The book jumps from Augustine's conversion to the end of his life with de Wohl skipping over the events of the intervening years in summary fashion. Why do you think de Wohl took this approach? ..."

As I said in another thread, I'd rather he had followed St. Augustine's whole life in the same detail. However, I think his approach has an explanation: De Wohl probably decided to write a novel based on The Confessions of St. Augustin. This book ends in Augustine's conversion. De Wohl probably thought over forty years of the life of Augustine were too long to skip, so he added Book Eight, dealing with the last two years.

I think the professor is right and for this reason the novel is not about the period of Saint Augustine as bishop except the Last period of his life. For this reason there is thing that this novel does not speak as writer of books defending the Church or his fight against donatists or pelagians.