by Georges Bernanos · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266112321
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«Sous le soleil de Satan» is the novel by Georges Bernanos, published by Pocket in paperback (280 pages, in French).
The novel recounts the fate of Mouchette, a young woman driven by despair, hypocrisy and misery towards vice and violence until she kills her lover. Her encounter with Abbé Donissan, an ascetic and humble vicar tormented by the presence of the devil, seals the fate of two souls supernaturally united in the struggle between good and evil.
Bernanos's first novel, originally published in 1926. This Pocket edition, in French, came out in 2001.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction interested in spiritual drama, Catholicism and the classics.
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.
