John Biguenet and "The Vulgar Soul"
| John Biguenet is the
Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University
New Orleans. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared recently
in such journals
as
The New
York Times, the
Washington Post, Esquire,
Granta, Story, Zoetrope: All-Story, DoubleTake, Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine, and Ploughshares as well as in various anthologies. Oyster,
a novel, was published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
in the U.S. and by Orion Books in the U.K. The Torturer's Apprentice,
a collection of his stories, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins
and by Orion Books in the U.K. (complete biography)
In "The Vulgar Soul," a young man devoid of any religious belief watches as the five wounds of the Crucifixion gradually appear on his body. The faithless stigmatic searches for a cure even as he is celebrated by the faithful. Abandoned by them when the wounds fade, he is offered an unexpected opportunity to embrace what he has resisted. <click here to read
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