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Bloy is quoted in the epigraph at the beginning of Graham Greene's novel The End of the Affair, and in the essay "The Mirror of Enigmas", by the Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, who acknowledged his debt to him by naming him in the Foreword to his short story collection "Artifices" as one of seven authors who were in "the heterogeneous list of the writers I am continually re-reading". In his novel The Harp and the Shadow, Alejo Carpentier excoriates Bloy as a raving, Columbus-defending lunatic during Vatican deliberations over the explorer's canonization. Bloy is also quoted at the beginning of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, and there are several quotations from his Letters to my Fiancée in Charles Williams's anthology The New Christian Year.[3] Le Désespéré was republished in 2005 by Editions Underbahn with a preface by Maurice G. Dantec. Pope Francis quoted Bloy in his inaugural address to the cardinal electors after his election in 2013, saying "Anyone who does not pray to the Lord prays to the devil."
