num_pages: 339
description: Fiction. "The Cathedral" is a reissue of a classic novel of spiritual awakening by the author of Against Nature. "Crafted with painstaking attention to detail, the novel is both an account of a conversion and a detailed examination of the language of medieval art. So thorough is Huysman's description of the cathedral that the book has even been sold as a guide to the building" (Dr. Penelope Woolf). The voice of the main character, Durtal, is as "wicked, witty, (and) self-lacerating ... (as that of) as that of a contemporary scholar with a bad case of mystical anomie" (Elizabeth Young, City Limits).
language: English
title: The Cathedral
titlecomplete: The Cathedral
characters: Durtal
genres: Fiction, France, Catholic, French Literature, Literature, Classics, Architecture, 19th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 204
places: France, Chartres
series: Durtal
publisher: Dedalus / Hippocrene