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A moving spiritual masterpiece that shows the true meaning of
divinity in a hostile world A young, shy, sickly priest is assigned
to his first parish, a sleepy village in northern France. Though
his faith is devout, he finds nothing but indifference and mockery.
The children laugh at his teachings, his parishioners are consumed
by boredom, rumours are spread about him and he is tormented by
stomach pains. Even his attempts to clarify his thoughts in a diary
fail to deliver him from worldly concerns. Yet somehow, despite his
suffering, he tries to find love for his fellow humans, and even a
state of grace. Translated by Howard Curtis
One of the great mavericks of French literature, Georges Bernanos
combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity.
Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as
the perfection of his singular art.
"Nothing but a little savage" is how the village school-teacher
describes fourteen-year-old Mouchette, and that view is echoed by
every right-thinking local citizen. Mouchette herself doesn't
bother to contradict it; ragged, foulmouthed, dirt-poor, a born
liar and loser, she knows herself to be, in the words of the story,
"alone, completely alone, against everyone." Hers is a tale of
"tragic solitude" in which despair and salvation appear to be
inextricably intertwined.
Bernanos uncompromising genius was a powerful inspiration to
Flannery O'Connor, and Mouchette was the source of a celebrated
movie by Robert Bresson.
In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life
of a young French country priest who grows to understand his
provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself.
Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise,
The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by
Robert Bresson. "A book of the utmost sensitiveness and
compassion... it is a work of deep, subtle and singularly
encompassing art." - New York Times Book Review
In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life
of a young French country priest who grows to understand his
provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself.
Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise,
The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by
Robert Bresson. "A book of the utmost sensitiveness and
compassion... it is a work of deep, subtle and singularly
encompassing art." - New York Times Book Review
In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life
of a young French country priest who grows to understand his
provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself.
Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise,
The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by
Robert Bresson. "A book of the utmost sensitiveness and
compassion... it is a work of deep, subtle and singularly
encompassing art." - New York Times Book Review
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Monsieur Ouine (Paperback)
Georges Bernanos; Translated by William S. Bush; Introduction by William S. Bush
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In a small village in northern France, Monsieur Ouine, a retired
professor, is taken in by the dull local squire, Anthelme de
Nereis, and soon rules the life of both Anthelme and his wife,
Ginette. A fourteen-year-old fatherless boy, Philippe Dorval, flees
home and, on impulse, follows Madame de Nereis to her chateau.
There the squire, who is dying, tells the boy that his father is
actually alive and well--that despite what Philippe's mother had
told him, his father had not died in World War I. The forsaken boy
finds himself on that fatal evening succumbing to Monsieur Ouine's
embrace after falling into a drunken sleep in the old professor's
bed. The events of the tempestuous night lead to upheaval in the
village the next morning, when, at dawn, a boy's body is found
afloat in a stream near the chateau.
In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life
of a young French country priest who grows to understand his
provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself.
Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise,
The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by
Robert Bresson. A book of the utmost sensitiveness and
compassion...it is a work of deep, subtle and singularly
encompassing art. New York Times Book Review (front page)
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