{"product_id":"the-biography-of-leon-bloy-paperback","title":"The Biography of Léon Bloy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRené Martineau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Biography of Léon Bloy: Memories of a Friend, \u003c\/em\u003epublished in 1921, is the official biography of Léon Bloy (1846-1917) by his friend, René Martineau. René Martineau and Léon Bloy were good friends for the last eighteen years of the latter writerʼs life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The first time I met Léon Bloy was at the train station in Lagny, in 1901.\" Lagny or Lagny-sur-Marne or, as Léon Bloy later put it, \"Cochons-sur-Marne\" (\"cochons\" meaning \"pigs\" in French). Bloy goes into day-after-day detail about the struggles he lived through there, in his published journal \u003cem\u003eFour Years of Captivity in Cochons-sur-Marne (Quatre ans de Captivité à Cochons-sur-Marne)...\u003c\/em\u003e four grievous years in the artistʼs already grievous life. They were, in René Martineauʼs words, four years of \"... unexpected contact of the most vulgar provincial villagers with the least common of French writers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe biography continues to follow Bloy, after Lagny, in Montmartre and then Bourg-la-Reine, (outside of Paris), until his passing. It also covers Bloyʼs early years, based on information obtained from the writer himself, and his wife, Mme. Bloy, as well as from letters, and friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is as much a biography as a defense, or apologia, of the great writer, whose reputation had suffered greatly as a result of the \"conspiration of silence\" during his lifetime, and following it. As René Martineau succinctly puts it, \"One will recognize in him [Bloy] an honest, affectionate, solitary man, of a ponderous mind and full of bravery, as neither the injustices nor the poverty that he faced had prevented him from achieving the most original, eloquent, and powerful work of our era... His complete works, while entering into literary history, will be Léon Bloyʼs best defense in the face of posterity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 190\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53300756152627,"sku":"9781955392266","price":31.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SETbfF2x4k9781955392266.webp?v=1777496475","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-biography-of-leon-bloy-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}