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portada The Desperate Man
Type
Physical Book
Author
Translated by
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
540
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.3 x 12.7 x 3.0 cm
Weight
0.58 kg.
ISBN13
9781955392372
Edition No.
0002
Categories

The Desperate Man

Léon Bloy (Author) · Richard Robinson (Translated by) · Sunny Lou Publishing · Paperback

The Desperate Man - Bloy, Léon ; Robinson, Richard

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Synopsis "The Desperate Man"

The Desperate Man (first published in 1887) is arguably the French decadent novel par excellence of the 19th century. It is also Léon Bloyʼs first novel and a seminal work which, as such, planted the seeds of just about every other important theme or topic that the author would later develop in subsequent works throughout his life and career. Life is rain water for talented writers; and habitual poverty for Bloy acted as the mulch.There is in The Desperate Man the seed of satire, which was actually a small tree by the time The Desperate Man came out, the seed having been sprouted earlier in his career, in the articles for newspapers, predominantly the Chat Noir journal, - such satire as to rival Jonathan Swiftʼs; there is also the seed of apocalyptic Catholicism in The Desperate Man, and the nuts of the exegeses of commonplaces, not to mention the germs of the blood of the poor; there is the kernel of the constant attack on contemporaneous clergy and Bloyʼs self-professed fondness for cenobitism. There is the spore of the eulogy for sainthood, and the embryo of the denunciation of the proxenetism of the press, Parisian high-society and the bourgeoisie. There are the negative grains of anti-Republicanism, and anti-German sentiment. There are the positive grains of pro-conservativism, pro-Medievalism, pro-Monarchy, and pro-Merovingian French Dynasty.

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