A Roland Colonnade

With the publication of A Roland Colonnade, the written accounts of the meeting of minds between David Bentley Hart and his dog Roland come full circle. One likes to think that Roland would have appreciated the image. So this is not a sequel, but rather a companion, to Roland in Moonlight. As noted in the Introduction, the purpose of this volume is to assemble, in their original states, all the individual columns featuring Roland, for the sake of a complete record of that mighty soul’s literary posterity; and also as a tribute to one who was loved dearly by his family, and by so many others-seemingly from afar and yet more truly in immediacy. For many readers, A Roland Colonnade offers a chance to revisit that ineffable warmth and solace. And as the author concludes the book, “But the new sky and the new earth are still promised, and all our memories of Roland tell us why they are still worth hoping for and believing in. Somewhere, we have to believe, he is waiting for us.”

Author Biography

David Bentley Hart writes on a great many topics in a variety of genres, producing works of philosophy, fiction, religious studies, theology, cultural commentary, literary criticism, treatments of the arts and sciences, and the occasional screed. His most recent books are All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life (Yale) and Prisms, Veils: A Book of Fables (Notre Dame). Roland 婺 Hart was a dog, a polymath, and in all likelihood a saint or bodhisattva, who was boundlessly generous in imparting his wisdom to those most in need of it, and whose presence was always a source of unalloyed joy for those who loved him.