{"product_id":"disagreeable-tales-9781939663108","title":"Disagreeable Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003eThirty tales from one of the best known but least translated of the French Decadent writers 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 \" Lon Bloy. Disagreeable Tales  first published in French in 1894  collects Bloys 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 Villiers de lIsle-Adam. Whether depicting parents and offspring being sacrificed for selfish gains  or imbeciles sacrificing their own individuality on a literary whim  these tales all draw sustenance from an underlying belief: the root of religion is crime against man  nature and God  and that in this hell on earth  even the worst among us has a soul.  A close friend to Joris-Karl Huysmans  and later admired by the likes of Kafka and Borges  Lon Bloy (18461917) is among the best known but least translated of the French Decadent writers. Nourishing antireligious sentiments in his youth  his outlook changed radically when he moved to Paris and came under the influence of Barbey dAurevilly  the unconventionally religious novelist best known for Les Diaboliques. He earned the dual nicknames of \"The Pilgrim of the Absolute\" through his unorthodox devotion to the Catholic Church  and \"The Ungrateful Beggar\" through his endless reliance on the charity of friends to support him and his family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792414498869,"sku":"ByrdShop_1939663105","price":334.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781939663108.jpg?v=1784748870","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/disagreeable-tales-9781939663108","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}