Durtal, a jaded Parisian man of letters, slips into St. Sulpice one November evening to hear the choir, and finds he cannot leave religion alone. Torn between sensuality and longing, he haunts churches, studies mystics and liturgical music, and at last goes on retreat to a Trappist monastery, where his conversion is tested in a narrow cell.
The sequel to Là-bas and a landmark of the Catholic literary revival by the author of À rebours. Download the free EPUB.