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THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL IN MODERN EUROPEAN LITERAT...

From 1890 to 1945  Europe was shaken by political  social  and cultural revolutions brought
about by the crisis of modernity. Marx  Nietzsche  and Freud stoked the yearnings of a
convulsed era  devastated by the First World War. It was a time when all kinds of alternative
and radical models of modernity were erected in pursuit of a new world: from the exasperation
of communist and fascist totalitarianism to the frenzy of the artistic avant-gardes and
biopolitics. Hungry for transcendence and tormented by hope  this passionate age also gave rise
in Europe to a Catholic revival in literature. Writers such as G. K. Chesterton  Evelyn Waugh 
and Graham Greene in England  Charles Péguy  Paul Claudel  and Georges Bernanos in France  and
Ramiro de Maeztu and José Bergamín in Spain found that Catholicism was the key to coping with
the enigmas and paradoxes of modern man. At the same time  by injecting the political and
artistic principles of modernity into the Christian tradition  they transformed a reactionary
Catholicism into the paradigm of ultramodernity. This book explores the intellectual history of
a European cultural phenomenon that has thus far been left out of most works of criticism 
despite its magnitude. Moreover  it does so through vibrant prose that makes this work of
research read like a novel.

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