Praise for Martin Mosebach's "The Heresy of Formlessness"

In a recent essay on The Catholic Thing site, Virgil Nemoianu, who teaches literature and philosophy at Catholic University of America, writes:

Matussek often quotes, with due approval and respect, a more sober and earnest author, the novelist Martin Mosebach. The  latter is a substantial, award-winning writer.  I read with pleasure and profit – and recommend – two of his fictional works, the long family novel Ruppertshain and the short, punchy, Der Mond und das Madchen ("The moon and the girl"). Mosebach has also written The Heresy of Formlessness, a courageous and unrelenting skewering of flat contemporary liturgies in favor of Tridentine modes of worship. He especially values and beautifully describes the practices of the Benedictine monks of Fontgombault Abbey in France. The indispensable Ignatius Press promptly translated the book, but it has had less resonance in America so far than it deserves.

Read the entire essay, "Strong Voices from Europe". You can read an excerpt from The Heresy of Formlessness: The Roman Liturgy and Its Enemy on Ignatius Insight:

And here is a review of the book, also on Ignatius Insight:

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