by Georges Bernanos · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266025768
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«Journal d'un curé de campagne» is the novel by Georges Bernanos published by Presses Pocket in paperback, in French.
The diary of a young priest assigned to a rural French parish. Through his notes, Bernanos portrays the ordinary life of the village and the priest's inner struggle with his vocation, solitude, illness and doubt. The novel turns spiritual experience into an intimate drama between grace and despair.
1974 edition based on the original 1936 edition; includes an unpublished preface by André Malraux and a biographical note by Jean-Loup Bernanos.
For readers of twentieth-century French literature interested in spiritual drama and an intimate tone.
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.
