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," Lon 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 FrancoPrussian 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 Bloys maniacal nationalism and frenetic Catholicism, it is a hell that emerges here, a 19thcentury apocalypse that tore a country apart and set the stage for a century of atrocities that were yet to come. Lon Bloy (18461917) was born to a freethinking yet stern father and a pious SpanishCatholic mother in southwestern France. Nourishing antireligious sentiments in his youth, his outlook changed radically when he moved to Paris and came under the influence of JulesAmde Barbey dAurevilly. In his subsequent years of writing pamphlets, novels, essays, poetry and a multi volume diary, Bloy earned his dual nicknames of "The Pilgrim of the Absolute" through his unorthodox devotion to the Catholic Church...

Binding: Paperback;232 pages; Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.; Classification: FC; Weight: 626 g; Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 17

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