By Georges Bernanos

“And yet that which revealed itself in this hour to Father Donissan’s eyes was not at all a symbol or a figure; it was a living soul, a heart sealed to all others!”

Under the Sun of Satan, Georges Bernanos’s powerful debut novel, throws the reader headlong into the mystery of evil and the drama of sal­vation. Saturated with dramatic intensity and marked with Bernanos’s inimitable fitful style, the novel follows young Father Donissan, a man of fervent faith but limited intelligence, striving to serve the Lord in his rural ministry. The priest’s ability to plumb the depths of his flock’s inner lives, along with his awareness of Satan on the prowl, grant him formidable opportunities of grace—with a girl fallen prey to prostitution, with a child on the cusp of death, and with his fellow priests struggling with doubt. 

Meditative, keenly insightful, at times even alarming, Under the Sun of Satan displays the masterful scope of Bernanos’s artistic vision, a vision which only grew in clarity with his later works.

Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) was a French Catholic author and critic. Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française in 1936 (for his novel The Diary of a Country Priest), Bernanos had numerous works adapted into film with great critical success; he remains one of the most respected writers of the twentieth-century France.

Paperback & E-book: 288pp.

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ISBN: 978-1944418557