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Bernanos - His Political Thought and Prophecy (Hardcover)
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Bernanos - His Political Thought and Prophecy (Hardcover)
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Thomas Molnar's Bernanos is an illuminating study of the personal
evolution of the French Catholic novelist Georges Bernanos from a
reactionary royalist to a religiously principled anti-fascist. It
also provides a detailed account of the intellectual divisions
within the French Catholic Right and suggests a number of parallels
with intellectual and literary figures on the secular and religious
left including Zola, Peguy, and Simone Weil. But, as Molnar points
out, the significance of Bernanos is not exhausted by his writings.
Bernanos the man is as deserving of attention as is Bernanos the
novelist, essayist, and social critic.Molnar shows Bernanos against
the troubled political-religious background of modern France: the
Dreyfus case, the disillusionment following World War I, the Franco
regime, Vichy, and the beginnings of the cold war. Whatever touched
France touched Bernanos, and he flung himself into each crisis, not
armed with a political system nor an academically sanctioned
philosophy, but with a peasant's respect for what is and a
Christian's sense of what might be. The portrait that Molnar draws
is that of a passionately concerned Christian who knows that truth
is hard to come by, but who is ready to follow it wherever it
leads, regardless of the consequences.A crucial theme covered by
Molnar is Bernanos' long and conflicted relations with Charles
Maurras and the Action Francaise. He makes clear the extent to
which Bernanos' fervent Catholicism set him apart from Maurras
whose positivistic inspiration and passion for order helped lay the
groundwork for the political collapse that led to the Vichy regime.
Thomas Molnar's book is a fascinating account of Georges Bernanos'
stature as both a political thinker and an important novelist.
Bernanos will be enjoyed by historians, political scientists,
philosophers, theologians, and scholars of literature.
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