His autobiographical novels, Le DĂ©sespĂ©rĂ© (1886; The Desperate Man) and La Femme pauvre (1897; The Woman Who Was Poor), express his mystical conception of woman as the Holy Spirit and of love as a devouring fire. The eight volumes of his Journal (written 1892â1917; complete edition published 1939)âŠ
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