The Devils of Loudun: Vintage Huxley
Autor Aldous Huxleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 apr 2005
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0099477769
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Seria Vintage Huxley
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Descriere
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history.
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In 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier—accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge—was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
In this classic work by the legendary Aldous Huxley—a remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiece—a compelling historical event is clarified and brought to vivid life.
Recenzii
“Huxley’s masterpiece and perhaps the most enjoyable book about spirituality ever written. In telling the grotesque, bawdy and true story of a 17th-century convent of cloistered French nuns who contrived to have a priest they never met burned alive as a warlock . . . Huxley painlessly conveys a wealth of information about mysticism and the unconscious.” — Washington Post Book World
“Here is the stuff that bizarre historical novels are made, but it is solidly based on fact and painstaking research. . . . This peak achievement of Huxley’s career reveals his sharp skill at characterization, his ability to recreate the smell and flavor of vanished eras. . . . A story that sounds like fiction but isn’t.” — New York Times
“One of the best books by Aldous Huxley, both as a writer and as a thinker.” — The Guardian (UK)
“Masterful” — London Times
“An exciting and indeed compelling social-psychological interpretation of one of the strangest occurrences in history.” — Sociology and Social Research
Notă biografică
Aldous Huxley (1894?1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.