- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press (1 Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0803261802
- ISBN-13: 978-0803261808
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.9 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,623,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"First published in 1926 and long unavailable in English translation, this vivid debut novel by the eminent French Catholic author (1888-1948) is a solid stepping-stone pointing toward the greater achievements of Bernanos''s "Diary of a Country Priest" and "The Impostor," . . . Episodic, indifferently constructed, and often hyperbolic, yet suffused with a dramatic intensity that makes one understand why Bernanos has sometimes been likened to Dostoevsky. Not all readers will agree, but "Under Satan''s Sun" should not be missed."--"Kirkus Reviews"
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This new translation marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Georges Bernanos's first novel, Under Satan's Sun, a powerful account of intense spiritual struggle that reflects the author's deeply-felt religion. The work develops a theme that persistently inspired Bernanos: the existence of evil as a spiritual force and its dramatic role in human destiny. This haunting novel follows the fortunes of a young, gauche, and fervent Catholic priest who is a misfit in the world and in his church, creating scandal and disharmony wherever he turns. His insight into the inner lives of others and his perception of the workings of Satan in the everyday are gifts that fatefully come into play in the priest's chance encounter with a young murderess, whose life and emotions he can see with a dreadful clarity, and whose destiny inexorably becomes entangled with his own. Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) was one of the twentieth century's most forceful and idiosyncratic writers and perhaps the most original Roman Catholic writer of his time. He wrote most of his major fiction in a period of barely twelve years, between 1926 and 1937, including his best-known work, The Diary of a Country Priest. J. C. Whitehouse is Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Bradford. He is the author of Vertical Man: The Human Being in the Catholic Novels of Graham Greene, Sigrid Undset, and Georges Bernanos and the translator of many books, including Bernanos's The Impostor (Nebraska 1999).
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Amazing story of a spiritual battle, 23 Feb 2007
By Ryan Larson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Under Satan's Sun (Paperback)
Bernanos' book is a fringhteningly real account of a priest engaged in great spiritual struggles. The victory over evil shown in the life of this priest, and in the lives of those he is called to serve, is amazing. This book is well worth reading by anyone who takes the struggle for holiness and triumph over evil seriously.
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A very dark of a Priest's life long struggle with Satan for souls, 14 Jun 2008
By Aquinas "summa" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Under Satan's Sun (Paperback)
I was lead to this book by reading an allocutio by Paul VI on the existence of the Devil - the Pope refers explicitly to this book.
This book is extremely dark; the encounter between the young priest and the devil at night is brilliantly written and again the encounter in the same night where the priest meets a young murderess, sees into her soul and narrates to her the story of her life, is haunting. The priest seems to be modelled (to some extent) on the Cure of Ars (John Vianney). The whiles of Satan are brillinatly captured; the priest's hatred of Satan seems to entrap him and to lead him to despair. He appears defeated by the lifelong struggle with the Prince of this World.
And, what does one make of his unsuccessful attempt to raise the young dead lad? He seems to be seeking to tempt God, as if asking for a sign that Satan is not the victor. This is a very complex book, illuminating areas of the spiritual life, seldom addressed in these times - a kind of recognition of the subtlety of Satan's activity. One comes away feeling: there is too much darkness in this book. Why no heavenly light; where is the "I have overcome the world"? Bernanos's vision of reality is dark indeed, think also of his Dialogue des Carmelites (which served as a libretto for Poulenc's opera) and the old nun despairing in her sick bed. And, yet the voice of Bernanos needs to be heard; a reminder that whilst the Cross marks victory over Satan, the victory is not completed until the end of the world.
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Recomended by Fr. Gabriele Amorth..., 9 Oct 2011
By Desi Fogale - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Under Satan's Sun (Paperback)
Rome's chief exorcist,Fr. Gabriele Amorth, recomended this novel because of its healthy deptiction of the demonic. So you know your in good hands when reading this book.The book simultaneously portrays Lucifer as "prince of this world" and "slave of Christ," for the sanctification of the saints. It is a really good book for anyone who wishes to know the true nature of the demonic. Contrary to what many 'learned catholics' may say, it is not wrong for us to be interested in learning about the Satan. It is as healthy as an athlete studying his opponent before a battle.Godbless.
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