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The Cathedral

(1898)
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"The Cathedral" is a reissue of a classic novel of spiritual awakening by the author of Against Nature. "Crafted with painstaking attention to detail, the novel is both an account of a conversion and a detailed examination of the language of medieval art. So thorough is Huysman's description of the cathedral that the book has even been sold as a guide to the building" (Dr. Penelope Woolf). The voice of the main character, Durtal, is as "wicked, witty, (and) self-lacerating ... (as that of) as that of a contemporary scholar with a bad case of mystical anomie" (Elizabeth Young, City Limits).


Genre: Literary Fiction

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