The Kingdom of Cain

Finding God in the Literature of Darkness

De: Andrew Klavan

Narrado por: Andrew Klavan

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the darkness can point the way to living beautifully in the midst of a tragic world.

“Andrew Klavan's book illuminates even as it explores the deepest darkness, finding truth and beauty in art born of unflinching confrontations with evil.” -- Daniel McCarthy, editor-in-chief, Modern Age

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In his USA Today bestselling The Truth and Beauty, Andrew Klavan explored how the work of great poets helps illuminate the truth of the gospels. Now, the award-winning screenwriter and crime novelist turns his attention to the dark side of human nature to discover how we might find joy and beauty in the world while still being clear-eyed about the evil found in it.

The Kingdom of Cain looks at three murders in history--including the first murder, Cain's killing of his brother, Abel--and at the art created from imaginative engagement with those horrific events by artists ranging from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Alfred Hitchcock.

To make beauty out of the world as it is--shot through with evil and injustice and suffering--is the task not just of the artist but, Klavan argues, of every life rightly lived. Examining how that transformation occurs in art grants us a vision for how it can happen in our lives.

Klavan eloquently argues that it is possible to be clear-eyed about the evil in the world while remaining hope-filled about God's ability to redeem it all.

Klavan Does It Again

Klavan provides another great insight into the arts in their current state, what has happened to get us here, and why we still ought to look to the Lord with awe because of them. What a great listen!

Insightful and Wise

Once again Andrew Klavan has taken a subject I hadn’t thought redeemable and shown how it points straight to God.

Even evil is used to show us how good is necessary. That there really is good. And that good comes from no other source but God Himself.

I was fascinated by this very well written book.

Very insightful!

Fascinating how Klavan tied all of his concepts together. I found the book quite compelling! Thanks, Andrew!

What a journey

Andrew Klavan delivers again with a marvelous guide through death, murder, and absolute depravity to, what I can only describe as divinely inspired, a beautiful end. His last chapter is a perfect capstone. We are enriched and changed by what we consume and on what we fix our attention. This book turns its reader towards the unknowable, but infinite and all knowing face of God even though we live in the Kingdom of Cain.

Amazing book. Well written and wonderfuly narrated. The research and insights the author presents are brilliant.

Liked everything. The history, the way the murders and movies are connected and the author view about them.