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Michael R. TOBIN, Georges Bernanos. The Theological Source of His Art, Montréal / Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007, 232 p. ISBN 9780773532328 RÉSUMÉ French journalist, polemicist, and novelist Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) is perhaps best known through Robert Bresson's film adaptation of Journal d'un curé de campagne (winner of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française; published in English as Diary of a Country Priest), Francis Poulenc's operatic adaptation of Dialogues des Carmélites, his first novel Sous le soleil de Satan, and the essay Les Grands Cimetières sous la Lune. 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. Recent English translations of some of Bernanos' novels have sparked renewed interest in his work in North America. Georges Bernanos includes Tobin's translations of essential texts that have never before appeared in English. TABLE DES MATIÈRES Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 3 PART ONE 1 A Creative Wellspring: The Source (1906–1940) 11 Castles in the Air 12 The Agnostic’s Sermon 17 The Fallen Idol 36 2 A Novelist of Genius: The Art (1906–1940) 55 The Flawed Saint 56 The Mystical Saint 72 The Beloved Saint 88 The Apostate 106 The Literati 119 The Dead 139 PART TWO 3 A Prophetic Essayist: The Source (1940–1948) 161 4 A Spiritual Testament: The Art (1940–1948) 185 Conclusion 200 Bibliography 207 Index 215 BIOGRAPHIE Michael R. Tobin is associate professor, French, St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Catholic [...] Lire la suite sur Infos Fabula
