Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the «ungrateful beggar» and «pilgrim of the absolute,» Léon Bloy. <I>Disagreeable Tales</I>, first published in French in 1894, collects Bloy's narrative sermons from the depths: a cauldron of frightful anecdotes and inspired misanthropy that represents a high point of the French Decadent movement and the most emblematic entry into the library of the «Cruel Tale» christened by...
First published in French in 1893, <I>Sweating Blood</I> describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the «Pilgrim of the Absolute,» Léon 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...
"Le Désespéré", de Léon Bloy. Publié par Good Press. Good Press publie un large éventail d'ouvrages, où sont inclus tous les genres littéraires. Les choix éditoriaux des éditions Good Press ne se limitent pas aux grands classiques, à la fiction et à la non-fiction littéraire. Ils englobent également les trésors, oubliés ou à découvrir, de la littérature mondiale. Nous publions les livres qu'il faut avoir lu. Chaque ouvrage publié par Good Press a été édité et mis en forme avec...
