C.J.T. Talar

Pure Love, Pure Poetry, Pure Prayer

History & Biography

“Considering the volume of work that Henri Bremond published, the many subjects it engaged, and the degree of recognition that it received from his contemporaries, Bremond has been a figure underrepresented in scholarship. Gorday has mastered Bremond’s considerable output, set it in context, and presented it in an accessible and attractive way. His Histoire littéraire provocatively rated by Émile Goichot as the most successful of all of the modernist writings, Bremond undertook his work of historical retrieval not out of antiquarian interest, but because he judged it of continuing significance for his own time. Gorday has done that for Bremond himself.”