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The Desperate Man (Le Désespéré in French) is a novel written by French author Léon Bloy and originally prepared for publication in 1886 but officially published in 1887. That the author's first novel should have had such a rocky start seems characteristic of the life of both author and protagonist.
16. Juni 2020 · 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...
The novel follows the brilliant but impoverished Caïn Marchenoir, an intransigeant Catholic writer of great promise living in Paris at the beginning of the French Third Republic as he struggles to balance two pairs of seemingly opposite and incompatible forces in his life.
16. Juni 2023 · 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 ...
Notable Works: “The Desperate Man”. “The Woman Who Was Poor”. Léon Bloy (born July 11, 1846, Périgueux, France—died November 2, 1917, Bourg-la-Reine) was a French novelist, critic, and polemicist, a fervent Roman Catholic convert who preached spiritual revival through suffering and poverty.
3.88. 145 ratings8 reviews. 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 ...
The Desperate Man (first published in 1887) is arguably the French decadent novel par excellence of the 19th century. It is also Léon Bloy¿s 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.
