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1882
Volume 74, Issue 3-4
  • ISSN: 0024-1415
  • E-ISSN: 2295-8991

Abstract

Abstract

Correspondant aux tendances antimodernes de son tempérament et de ses requêtes intellectuelles, politiques, morales et esthétiques, la découverte de l’œuvre de Léon Bloy (1846-1917) par Léopold Levaux (1892-1956), en 1913, aura sur lui l’effet d’une véritable révélation, et entraînera bientôt, non sans atermoiements, sa conversion au catholicisme.

Passant de l’admiration livresque au désir de rencontre, Levaux et sa femme viendront à Paris en juin 1914 pour faire la connaissance du Maître. De mi-mai à début août 1915, après avoir quitté la Belgique occupée, le jeune couple, vivra chez les Bloy pendant deux mois et demi. L’idylle initiale subira l’usure du temps et plusieurs frictions finiront par créer une distance qui, cependant, n’ira jamais jusqu’à la rupture. On trouvera ici un compte rendu des relations contrastées qui lieront Léon Bloy et son disciple belge.

Abstract

Corresponding to the anti-modern tendencies of his temperament and his intellectual, political, moral and aesthetic queries, the discovery of the work Léon Bloy (1846-1917) by Léopold Levaux (1892-1956), in 1913, had the effect of a true revelation on him, and soon led, not without dithering, to his conversion to Catholicism.

Moving from admiration for books to a desire to meet, Levaux and his wife will come to Paris in June 1914 to get to know the Master. In 1915, running away from the Belgian territory invaded by the Germans, the young couple will live with the Bloy family for two and a half months (from mid-May to the beginning of August). The initial idyll will suffer the wear and tear of time, and several frictions would eventually create a distance which, however, will never come to a separation. We find here a report of the contrasting relationships that bind Léon Bloy and his Belgian disciple.

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