Journal | JoMaCC
Journal issue | 1 | 1 | 2022
Research Article | The Novelist and Social Catholicism: George Fonsegrive’s Le Fils de l’Esprit
The Novelist and Social Catholicism: George Fonsegrive’s Le Fils de l’Esprit
Abstract
George Fonsegrive (1852-1917), noteworthy for his work in philosophy and apologetics, also wrote several novels under the pen name of Yves Le Querdec. For the most part they can be classed as realist social novels with a didactic purpose. Le Fils de l’Esprit (1905) falls among these. While didactic novels are not generally remembered for their literary merit, the very qualities that consign them to marginal interest attract the interest of the historian. In the details of life and human interaction that novels portray may be communicated the texture of the times and feeling of a period that more analytic treatments convey. As a novelist, Fonsegrive offers perspectives on a French Catholicism that was undergoing significant transformation in its social action.
Submitted: April 14, 2022 | Accepted: April 27, 2022 | Published April 29, 2022 | Language: en
Keywords France • Roman Catholic Modernism • George Fonsegrive • Religion and literature • Social Catholicism
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