Brideshead Revisited

I read this wonderful book during my recent visit to Rome.
I was very much enlightened to the grandeur of this piece
of literature and have recommended to many friends.

Below is a brief from the Communio website that can be found
at the following web address, http://www.communio-icr.com/news.html

Furthermore, the staff at Communio have made available a wonderful little essay that points out many of the hidden Catholic undertones of the book.

I would love to hear any comments from those who have read the book.

The new film version of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited coming out from BBC Films this fall has generated some discussion regarding faithfulness to the text, on one hand, and whether Waugh's novel of decadence and theology can be made intelligible to popular culture at all, on the other. As a contribution to the discussion, we have brought up from our archives the 1983 article, The Death of Charm and the Advent of Grace: Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, by Thomas Prufer. Prufer, who taught philosophy at the Catholic University of America from 1960 to 1993, argues in this short text that Waugh's achievement in the novel is "to have made a work in which the integrities of both art and faith are respected in their interaction," and offers a reading of the novel's depiction of the place of worldly charm: as only a forerunner, but also a real forerunner, of grace.