the diary of a country priest by georges bernanos

The kind of thin, steady rain which gets sucked in with every breath, which seeps down through the lungs into your belly. This thought struck me yesterday on my rounds. You can keep going a long time with that in you. Someday perhaps we shall catch it ourselves-become aware of the cancerous growth within us. Like so many others! We can see them being eaten up by boredom, and we can’t do anything about it. My parish is bored stiff no other word for it. His outbursts fill his colleagues with glee, and he stresses them with a look meant to be fiery, but which gives me such a deep sensation of stale discouragement that it almost brings tears into my eyes. He is a good priest, deeply kind and human, who at diocesan headquarters is even considered a bit of a free-thinker, on the dangerous side. le Curé de Norenfontes-that good and evil are probably evenly distributed, but on such a low plane, very low Indeed! Or if you like they lie one over the other like oil and water they never mix.

Read moreįree eBooks / Audio Books / Rare / Out of Print Though often dismissed as a 'merely Catholic' writer, Bernanos' humanism and touching portraits of compassion, doubt and suffering at its limits are sure to captivate both secular and religious readers.Īndré Malraux rated the works of Georges Bernanos even above Sartre, Camus and Gide.Īlso of note: Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) recently wrote and directed the 2018 film 'First Reformed' which is loosely based on both this book as well as the film by Robert Bresson of the same title. This novel (his 3rd) deserves a place beside even Dostoyevsky's most psychological novels. Though little known or discussed in English speaking countries, French author Georges Bernanos made a critical impact, inspiring several films in France, most notably by director Robert Bresson.

A young priest taking over a rural parish tries to discharge his duties even as he struggles to relate to the congregation and the cold realism of his nearest colleagues, all the while, coping with a mysterious stomach ailment.

The diary of a country priest by georges bernanos