The Diary of a country priest - Georges Bernanos

The Diary of a country priest
Georges Bernanos

Penguin Classics

This classic, imaginative novel is a study of faith in an increasingly hostile world. Through intimate journal entries, the author reveals the private life and struggles of a young, withdrawn, devout and sickly priest in northern France. Though his beliefs are sincere and profound, his enthusiasm quickly collides with the indifference and cowardice of his parishioners. Conversations with a confused young girl, an atheist doctor, a grieving countess, her spiteful teenage daughter and a soldier illustrate the priest's own despair, doubts, joys, torments and ultimate appeal to grace.

The Diary of a Country Priest has been translated and published in twenty-seven countries, was honored in 1936 with the Grand Prize for Fiction of the French Academy and ranks among the most important works of French literature of the 20th century. It also has been transferred to the cinema by Robert Bresson.

https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Country-Priest-Georges-Bernanos/dp/0241381800/ref=monarch_sidesheet

Library