by Georges Bernanos · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498674149
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In the summer of 1936, the Spanish Civil War breaks out. The renowned French writer Georges Bernanos, of Catholic and monarchist convictions, has been in Mallorca since 1934. Initially attracted to Francoism, he soon feels disturbed by the brutality of the anti-republican repression on the island. From this concern arises 'Els grans cementiris sota la lluna' (1938), a forceful critique considered by Hannah Arendt as 'the most significant pamphlet ever written against fascism'. For Bernanos, the Spanish tragedy becomes a symbol of the world's tragedy, transforming a circumstantial writing into a work of universal scope.
Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism. He believed this had led to France's defeat and eventual occupation by Germany in 1940 during World War II. His two best-known novels Sous le soleil de Satan (1926) and the Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936) both revolve around a parish priest who combats evil and despair in the world. Most of his novels have been translated into English and frequently published in both Great Britain and the United States.
