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Said Belgian Author Maurice Maeterlinck: Léon Bloy wrote "the only work of [his] day in which there are evident marks of genius, if by genius one means certain flashes 'in depth...
Said the late Irish Critic Ernest Boyd: Bloy was "an abusive, ungrateful parasite, a past master of vituperation...
Wrote Léon Bloy of himself: "I am simply a poor man who seeks his God, sobbing and calling Him along all roads...
...certainly a poor man. Bulb-eyed, walrus-mustached Parisian Léon Bloy published eight volumes of his journal, two autobiographical novels and many other works* during his 71-year lifetime that ended in 1917. But none sold enough copies to relieve him of the necessity of begging from his friends, from tradesmen, from strangers, to keep his wife and two daughters alive. Yet Beggar Bloy said no polite thank-yous to society. His writings alternated perfervid religious devotion with savage, four-letter-word vituperation against solid bourgeois values...
...life of this strange mystic was said to have been filled with "former friends." But though he estranged many, Bloy brought into the Roman Catholic fold many an apostate or proselyte to whom the church's more official voices had sounded too worldly and well-fed. One convert was the Thomist philosopher, Jacques Maritain. In 1905, Maritain, then a God-seeking philosophy student, and his young wife, Raïssa, visited Léon Bloy for the first time. They found in him the spiritual inspiration they had been looking...