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Title: The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel by Georges Bernanos, Remy Rougeau ISBN: 0-7867-0961-8 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Everyday Christianity, Extraordinary Power
Comment: The Diary of a Country Priest is a beautiful homily on faith, pain, and grace skillfully written as a novel. Bernanos' preaching style is passion, a dual entendre that is strong, fervent belief but also intense suffering, and his preaching style is evocative and powerful in the effects that it has on the reader.
Through Bernanos' novel, the reading gains an understanding of how difficult it is to truly live Christianity every day existence, especially in the most difficult times of one's life. The novel is written as the journal of a young pastor in rural France, and this format enables the author to present a series of very deep, spiritually-based dialogues that form the intellectual basis of the story.
The Diary of a Country Priest raises a number of issues in the course of the exchanges between characters and the reflections of the priest; human loss, physical pain and suffering, the poor, honor and humility, and grace are just some of the themes discussed by Bernanos.
The author beautifully presents his thoughts on these and other spiritual questions through the passion of the priest, literally and figuratively.
Take your time reading this book, as nearly every page has at least one sentence that is grounds for serious reflection.
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: 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: The Woman of the Pharisees by Francois Mauriac, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerald Hopkins ISBN: 0881843717 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Power and the Glory 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: 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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