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''Black Robe'', first published in 1985, is a historical novel by Brian Moore set in New France in the 17th century. The novel follows Father Laforgue, a French Jesuit priest traveling up river to repopulate the mission to the Huron Indians. (The First Nations peoples called the priests "Black Robes".) It chronicles his interactions with the "" tribes of Algonkian (friendly) and Iroquois (unfriendly), as well as his inner struggles of faith, as he travels upriver to bring salvation to the Hurons. As he is traveling with the Huron Indians, he realizes how difficult it will be to change their minds about their current faith. At First the Huron Indians create an agreement with the French people to allow "Black Robe" and his assistant Daniel to travel with them for a few weeks. As "Black Robe" and Daniel are trying to bring salvation to the Hurons they get labeled as demons and are outcast from the group. Moore juxtaposes the "superstitious" religious beliefs of the Native people with the Christian religious beliefs of Father Laforgue, which the reader can see very nearly mirror each other. The book was adapted into the 1991 film of the same title directed by Bruce Beresford, for which Moore wrote the screenplay. ==Reception== Writing in ''The New York Times'', novelist James Carroll described ''Black Robe'' as "an extraordinary novel... in which Brian Moore has brought vividly to life a radically different world and populated it with men and women wholly unlike us. His novel's achievement, however, is that, through the course of its shocking narrative... we recognize its fierce, awful world as the one we live in. We put Mr. Moore's novel down and look at ourselves and our places differently". Anstiss Drake in the ''Chicago Tribune'' praises the novel's "economy of style, vivid characterizations, spellbinding story and a master's touch... He accomplishes a portrait of native tribespeople that is acute and unsentimental. In Laforgue, Moore gives us a type seldom seen nowadays; he has saintly purity and heroism. Laforgue suffers in both mind and spirit on his quest; for his God he walks into a wilderness from which he will never return". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Robe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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