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Works of Catholic mysticism and the sanctification of suffering
Claudel's Violaine accepts leprosy and death as the conditions of grace — a sacramental vision in which physical suffering is the path to spiritual redemption. These works share that same Catholic world in which the body and the spirit are inextricably linked.
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by Paul Claudel
Claudel's monumental baroque drama — four days covering the Counter-Reformation world; the fullest statement of his vision; technically unperformable but essential reading
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by Paul Claudel
The autobiographical passion play — suppressed in Claudel's lifetime; four characters on a ship to China; the drama of erotic passion and religious conversion
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La Cathédrale de Reims
by Émile Mâle
The great art-historical study of French Gothic cathedral iconography — the visual theology that forms the symbolic world of L'Annonce faite à Marie
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Buy on AmazonLe Journal d'un curé de campagne
by Georges Bernanos
Diary of a Country Priest — the other great work of French Catholic literature of the period; a dying young priest's encounter with the mystery of grace
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Buy on AmazonLa Reine morte
by Henry de Montherlant
The neo-classical counterpart — secular rather than Catholic, but sharing Claudel's formal ambition and the medieval setting that gives both plays their symbolic register
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Buy on AmazonSous le soleil de Satan
by Georges Bernanos
Under the Sun of Satan — Bernanos's first novel; a priest's encounter with evil; the Catholic literary world that Claudel's theatre occupies
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Buy on AmazonAntigone
by Jean Anouilh
The Occupation counterpart — where Claudel's Violaine accepts sanctity through suffering, Anouilh's Antigone refuses the world without religious framework; the secular and the Catholic versions of absolute refusal
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Cinq Grandes Odes
by Paul Claudel
Claudel's major poetry — the verset form and the Catholic vision in their purest lyric expression; essential companion to the plays
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