Book Review: The Cathedral by Joris-Karl Huysmans
“I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.”
– Psalm 137:2
Tag: literature canon
Book Download: En Route by Joris-Karl Huysmans
“No, the more I think of her,” he cried, “the more I think her prodigious, unique, the more I am convinced that she alone holds the truth, that outside her are only weaknesses of mind, impostures, scandals. The Church is the divine breeding ground, the heavenly dispensary of souls…”
Book Review: En Route by Joris-Karl Huysmans
“But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” – Luke 15:32
Book Review: The Song of Roland
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
Book Review: The Iliad by Homer
“The Greek epics express, with an incomparable depth and fulness, the eternal knowledge of truth and destiny which is the creation of the heroic age—the age that cannot be destroyed by any bourgeois ‘progress’.”
– Werner Jaeger
Book Review: The Aeneid by Virgil
“Be happy, friends; your fortune is achieved,
While one fate beckons us and then another.”
– Aeneid III. 655-656.
Book Review of Jerome: Select Letters
“Nothing is happier than the Christian, for to him is promised the kingdom of heaven: nothing is more toil-worn, for every day he goes in danger of his life.”
– St. Jerome