The purpose of this study is to examine the duality in the mind and writings of the Catholic novelist and polemicist, Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), who sees the wonder and glory of childhood as well ...as its vulnerability and fragility. In his works children are both victims and yet vehicles of grace and beauty. Before focusing on his most celebrated novel, Diary of a Country Priest, it is important to consider in his earlier works the position of children and of similar, pure spirits who in his eyes have many of the characteristics of children.
Georges Bernanos Tobin, Michael Robinson
Georges Bernanos,
c2007, 20071017, 2007, 2007-10-17
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Michael Tobin's study is part literary criticism, part biography. Tobin follows Bernanos and his family from France to Spain during the Civil War and then to Brazil and North Africa. He also provides ...a thematic synthesis of Bernanos' novels and his extensive body of non-fiction, demonstrating that one fundamental theological truth - the Incarnation of God in Jesus Christ - was the the unifying factor of Bernanos's entangled political and social criticism and the engine of his creative imagination.
Ce volume réunit un ensemble de contributions en hommage à Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre qui a été une figure majeure du développement de la recherche en Lettres à l’ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud dans le ...dernier quart du xxe siècle. Ces contributions, toutes signées par d’anciens élèves de Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre, témoignent du rayonnement de son enseignement, de la valeur séminale des pistes et des méthodes de recherche qu’elle a développées, et de la place importante occupée aujourd’hui par sa pensée dans l’université littéraire française, par l’intermédiaire des enseignants-chercheurs qu’elle a contribué à former. Cet ouvrage n’est donc pas seulement un volume d’hommages : il offre aussi l’image dynamique d’un courant actuel des études littéraires qui forge ses outils et définit ses champs de recherches au contact de l’anthropologie et de l’histoire culturelle.
The interpretation points out the function of the kerygma in some of Georges Bernanos' most famous novels. The goal is an interpellation of the transcendence as a defining difference of the ...inter-diction: neither the already spoken, neither the giftof a speech the meaning of which is hidden in the common word. The affirmation of what is not affirmable in itself is rather a state of absence and of silence which is instituted by the unspeakable, expressed however as a witness in an interdiction zone, relieving the paradoxical discourse where the unspoken looks for a statute inside the language. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Death—no fear Sherwood, Thomas
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Recenzirano
"Tarrou had lived a life riddled with contradictions, and had never known hope's solace. Did that explain his aspiration towards saintliness, his quest of peace by service in the cause of others? ...Actually Rieux had no idea of the answer to that question, and it mattered little. The only picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering-wheel of his car when driving, or else the picture of that stalwart body, now lying motionless. Knowing meant that: a living warmth, and a picture of death." Earlier, Tarrou had said "I don't want to die, and I shall put up a fight. But if I lose the match, I want to make a good end of it".
Les romans de Bernanos, réédités dans la Pléiade, ont une réputation de noirceur qui n’est pas usurpée. L’imaginaire de l’auteur se déploie dans des ténèbres traversées d’éclairs, où le mal triomphe ...tant qu’un personnage de saint ne lui oppose sa fragile résistance. Ses essais, désignés comme « écrits de combat » dans la même collection, n’échappent pas à l’emprise du mal. Aucun sursaut d’optimisme ne vient sauver un monde en proie à des forces obscures que les instances politiques, religieuses, militaires sont bien en peine de maîtriser. Les conférences de l’après-guerre frappent par leur catastrophisme. Bernanos, parcourant une Europe en ruine, s’y fait prophète de malheur.
Comfort analyzes the metaphorical representations of spiritual confusion in George Bernanos' Journal d'un cure de campagne. The novel is an allegory for the difficulty the devout may have in ...maintaining their spirituality in modern society.
"Books are books, and can suffer the same fate as men. They too can be killed in battle," wrote Georges Bernanos in Francais, si vous saviez. Bernanos' work thus demands to be read through the optic ...of his battle against the modern spirit. If the polemical focus is clear in his political writings, criticism of his work has never fully recognized its deployment throughout his novels. It is therefore when Bernanosian fiction renounces any expression of its intention, eluding any dimension of rhetoric---when it is dramatically demobilized---that it is meant to be its most scandalous.
What is the mission of fiction in the Bernanosian project? Based on the tools of reconciled rhetoric of figures and argumentation, the aim of this work is to re-examine the Bernanosian triple paradox of "convincing of the obvious without using words those who share his beliefs" which generates the tension of his project of writing from the end; that is to say finding a language worthy of Christian truth, a language so "true" and so "transparent" that it could be capable of immediate conversion of souls. To fully understand the place of battle in Bernanosian writing, the notion of the end as a creative principle is examined through three main themes: the preludes to the end of time (eschatology), the final struggle for the end (agony) and the end results of writing (aim).
Writing from the end fundamentally implies a return to the origins. The focus of this study will be to demonstrate that the Bernanosian project, through a return to the source of spiritual authority and a re-examination of asceticism, is a central part of the vast enterprise of reappropriation of language defining French literature after the armistice. The search for this language capable not of convincing but of conquering is mainly studied through the voices the author gives his characters who are simple in heart and soul: to his heroes who are "strangers to a certain fencing with language," locked in a perpetual battle with words. The analysis of these heroes' discourse in this "slow tongue" attempts to determine the exact, though improbable, degree to which their babbling voices carry a weight of authority.