The Meaning Code | Witness by Whittaker Chambers, Episode 2 @TheMeaningCode | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
Continuing the reading from Witness by Whittaker chambers, here from P. 6
If you want to know whether you will be interested, read the reviews at Amazon. Some examples:
"Witness is among the most haunting books that I have ever read. The reader who picks it up expecting only a combination spy story and courtroom drama is likely to be profoundly surprised.
This book is must-reading, regardless of political persuasion. It not only tells a riveting story, it does so with a poetic, melancholy beauty reminiscent of a great Russian novelist. Something about his writing reminded me of Nabokov (an inexact comparison, given that the style exhibits none of Nabokov's exuberant, puckish wordplay). But Chambers's fluid, graceful sentences, and his gift for reconstruction of sensory and emotional states, are comparable to those of the brilliant Russian emigre. Suffice it so say that this book does not read like a bestselling memoir, but rather as a great work of literature.
The story of Witness is of a man originally alienated from his society, and of his struggle to find good and meaning in his world. Chambers's account of his early life is deeply saddening.
One is hardly surprised that such an alienated, secretly intelligent, unappreciated youth, convinced of the intractable injustice of the world, would be seduced by communism."
And another:
"Man’s Purpose for Life? A Christian friend once asked: “What is wrong with Communism?” A perfectly legitimate question. On paper, equality for all in any and all circumstances appears to be a most noble endeavor. However, Chambers points out in his autobiography, an ideology without God creates monsters. In his simple beautiful and profound theological discoveries from a dedicated Communist converted to a dedicated Christian, one of his greatest assertions is: “God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor” p. 16"
Continuing the reading from Witness by Whittaker chambers, here from P. 6
If you want to know whether you will be interested, read the reviews at Amazon. Some examples:
"Witness is among the most haunting books that I have ever read. The reader who picks it up expecting only a combination spy story and courtroom drama is likely to be profoundly surprised.
This book is must-reading, regardless of political persuasion. It not only tells a riveting story, it does so with a poetic, melancholy beauty reminiscent of a great Russian novelist. Something about his writing reminded me of Nabokov (an inexact comparison, given that the style exhibits none of Nabokov's exuberant, puckish wordplay). But Chambers's fluid, graceful sentences, and his gift for reconstruction of sensory and emotional states, are comparable to those of the brilliant Russian emigre. Suffice it so say that this book does not read like a bestselling memoir, but rather as a great work of literature.
The story of Witness is of a man originally alienated from his society, and of his struggle to find good and meaning in his world. Chambers's account of his early life is deeply saddening.
One is hardly surprised that such an alienated, secretly intelligent, unappreciated youth, convinced of the intractable injustice of the world, would be seduced by communism."
And another:
"Man’s Purpose for Life? A Christian friend once asked: “What is wrong with Communism?” A perfectly legitimate question. On paper, equality for all in any and all circumstances appears to be a most noble endeavor. However, Chambers points out in his autobiography, an ideology without God creates monsters. In his simple beautiful and profound theological discoveries from a dedicated Communist converted to a dedicated Christian, one of his greatest assertions is: “God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor” p. 16"
