- Hardcover
- Publisher: Macmillan Compagny (1948)
- ASIN: B0014Z8ZVQ
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Bernanos's "Diary" represents that rarest of glimses into the clerical world: a view that is utterly convincing and completely enthralling! As the author pursues the early life and career of a French provincial Abbe, he simultaneously reveals the sufferings, triumphs, and struggles of the people that the young priest serves. Parallel to the tribulations of their lives, Bernanos lovingly shows how deeply one man, one priest can empathize with those he serves. While Bernanos never became a priest himself, his early life prepared him to write this, his greatest novel. The poignancy of this small novel is one that builds gradually. The impatient reader may, at first, not "connect" with the story, but the faithful reader will soon find that he/she cannot put it down. The last 30 pages of this work are one of the 20th century's masterpieces of spiritual prosody that I can identify.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am not religious, yet this book is a permanent source of inspiration for me. I believe this comes from the beauty of the life it describes, rather than of doctrines. This is perhaps the most relevant book I ever read, and also one of the best in whatever sense.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Along with Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness, Diary is one of the books that helped convince me to become a Catholic. The priest's dying words--"Grace is everywhere"--sum up for me the Faith and what I want from and in my life.
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Superb
This is an amazing novel. In the form of the diary of "M. le Cure" it describes a man's search for God through the hardships and sufferings of everyday life in a French village c... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Niall Keenan
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This book is a treasure - the young priest, being devoured by cancer, is a luminous icon of Christ and a true Father to his flock. Read more
Published on 22 Jun 2008 by Aquinas
Dont read this book
This book has had an enormous impact on my life. Having had to read it as part of my French A level course (in French!)it left me psychologically scarred. Read more
Published on 17 July 2003
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