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First published in French in 1893,Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the "Pilgrim of the Absolute," Leon Bloy.

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First published in French in 1893, Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the Pilgrim of the Absolute, Leon Bloy. Writing with blood, sweat, tears and moral outrage, Bloy drew from anecdotes, news reports and his own experiences as a guerilla fighter to compose a fragmented depiction of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, told with equal measures of hatred and pathos, and alternating between cutting detail and muted anguish. From heaps of corpses, monstrous butchers, cowardly bourgeois, bloody massacres, seas of mud, drunken desperation, frightful disfigurement, grotesque hallucinations and ghoulish means of personal revenge, a generalized portrait of suffering is revealed that ultimately requires a religious lens: for through Bloy's maniacal nationalism and frenetic Catholicism, it is a hell that emerges here, a 19th-century apocalypse that tore a country apart and set the stage for a century of atrocities that were yet to come. Leon Bloy (1846-1917) was born to a freethinking yet stern father and a pious Spanish-Catholic mother in southwestern France. Nourishing anti-religious sentiments in his youth, his outlook changed radically when he moved to Paris and came under the influence of Jules-Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly. In his subsequent years of writing pamphlets, vels, essays, poetry and a multi volume diary, Bloy earned his dual nicknames of The Pilgrim of the Absolute through his urthodox devotion to the Catholic Church and The Ungrateful Beggar through his endless reliance on the charity of friends to support him and his family.

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Publisher
Wakefield Press
ISBN-10
1939663172
ISBN-13
9781939663177
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220943766

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Cambridge
Introduction by
Translator (French and German to English) Erik Butler
Translated by
Erik Butler
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Author(s)
Leon Bloy
Date of Publication
16/03/2016
Subject
General & Literary Fiction
Imprint
Wakefield Press
Country of Publication
AU

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