Disagreeable Tales

Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the "e;ungrateful beggar"e; and "e;pilgrim of the absolute,"e; Leon Bloy. Disagreeable Tales, first published in French in 1894, collects Bloy's narrative sermons from the depths: a cauldron of frightful anecdotes and inspired misanthropy that represents a high point of the French Decadent movem...