by Georges Bernanos · Ediciones Encuentro, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499200088
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Diary of a Country Priest is not just a novel about the priesthood, but a work about faith and the Church. The young priest of Ambricourt feels incapable of opposing the evil he sees in himself and in others. But he will discover that the greatness of the Church does not depend on the brilliance of its members, but on the triumph of the Risen One that is reflected in his own, the weakest, the smallest like him, and that only those who have the simplicity that gives the spirit of childhood can recognize. It is a novel about Grace, which is imposed on the stupor and rejection of the protagonist and which turns his misery and inability into a path to a salvation that is from another world. And it is a novel about the Church, whose face shines in the light of Grace.
Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism. He believed this had led to France's defeat and eventual occupation by Germany in 1940 during World War II. His two best-known novels Sous le soleil de Satan (1926) and the Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936) both revolve around a parish priest who combats evil and despair in the world. Most of his novels have been translated into English and frequently published in both Great Britain and the United States.
