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Title: The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos, Pamela Morris ISBN: 0-370-10598-2 Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group) Pub. Date: 31 December, 1937 Format: Hardcover |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Poignant and evocative
Comment: In Journal of a country priest, Bernanos give an amazing insight into the world of a parish priest in a small french village. While everything goes terribly wrong for the priest, and all his worldly efforts fail miserably, the book ends on a note of spiritual redemption that is (amazingly) not at all at odds with the rest of the story. This is Bernanos' triumph- that he can so faithfully recreate the priest's faith in the face of failure and death that the reader can comprehend and sympathise with this faith. I myself am not religious, but it seems to me that Bernanos embodies the greatest strenghts of catholicism and religion in general
Rating: 5
Summary: An intense touching portait of a country priest's struggles.
Comment: Bernanos' classic is perhaps the most touching novel I've ever read. Its the story of a country priest whose parish is not very interested in religious matters. He deals with this, his personal problems, and Bernanos' descriptions of his struggles are profoundly emotional. I read this book a long time ago, but to this day I remember the impact it had on me. Such feeling and compassion I have never felt for any other fictional character (save Lord Jim). This work is truly a masterpeice. Reading it will change you, forever....
Rating: 5
Summary: a philosophical rather than religious journey
Comment: It is saddening to read the reviews posted because this novel is not a Christian tract and in fact addresses that margin of life where one observes human behavior, including one's own, and begins to wonder where it may lead, if anywhere. It is not a religious book but in fact a philosophical one, in the guise of a journal. One can read it with Boethius, Anne Frank, Camus or maybe even John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces. Had to throw that oddity in...) But the point is that this book appeals even to atheists like Albert Camus, and there is a reason for that. It skims very near the glowing core of fundamental issues without lapsing into easy solutions. And it does have a plot, on some levels ironic. But irony is too often lost on the faithful, and too often the end rather than the means to understanding for the faithless. Note that in France, it is regarded as one of the top half dozen books of the 20th century.
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Title: The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene, John Updike ISBN: 0142437301 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh ISBN: 0316926345 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Under Satan's Sun/Sous Le Soleil De Satan by Georges Bernanos, J. C. Whitehouse ISBN: 0803261802 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Silence by Shusaku Endo, William Johnston ISBN: 0800871863 Publisher: Parkwest Pubns Pub. Date: March, 1980 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Impostor by Georges Bernanos, J. C. Whitehouse ISBN: 0803261535 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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