The Desperate Man
First published in 1886, and presented here for the first time in an English translation, The Desperate Man is arguably Léon Bloy's masterpiece, and a genre of its own.Written in utmost poverty, when Bloy was forty years old, this ruthless novel lays bare the soul of one of France's most difficult authors as he appears under the guise of the desperate Marchenoir, a man of genius who is unable to compromise with a society that he sees as corrupt, despicable and hypocritical, while he carries on a bizarre sexually-charged but also mystical relationship with Véronique Cheminot, a former prostitute turned religious zealot. At once a scandalous ro…
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- ISBN: 978-1-64525-031-9
- EAN: 9781645250319
- Produktnummer: 33835206
- Verlag: Snuggly Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.1 cm 553 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 553
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