Bernanos, Georges 1888-1948

The diary of a country priest by Georges Bernanos ( Book )
362 editions published between 1083 and 2009 in 17 languages and held by 2,314 libraries worldwide
""Ma paroisse est une paroisse comme les autres. Toutes les paroisses se ressemblent. Les paroisses d'aujourd'hui, naturellement. Je le disais hier à M. le curé de Norenfontes : le bien et le mal doivent s'y faire équilibre ..." " Le don magnifique de Bernanos, c'est de rendre le surnaturel naturel" : François Mauriac. "Journal d'un curé de campagne" est, à n'en pas douter, le chef-d'oeuvre de Bernanos et c'est un livre bouleversant : G. Marcel. "Cet écrivain de race mérite le respect et la gratitude de tous les hommes libres" : Albert Camus.

Sous le soleil de Satan by Georges Bernanos ( Book )
226 editions published between 1000 and 2008 in 10 languages and held by 1,378 libraries worldwide
"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." -- Back cover.

Dialogues des carmélites by Georges Bernanos ( Book )
188 editions published between 1949 and 2006 in 10 languages and held by 1,156 libraries worldwide
Théâtre avec trente personnages: vingt-et-une femmes, neuf hommes.

Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette by Georges Bernanos ( Book )
102 editions published between 1936 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 980 libraries worldwide
Paru pour la première fois en 1937, ce récit raconte les aventure de Mouchette, 14 ans, fille d'un couple d'ivrognes et adolescente solitaire. Elle rencontre un braconnier, Arsène, puis retourne au chevet de sa mère mourante. Celle-ci meurt et Mouchette prépare l'enterrement, tout en se rebellant contre ceux qui veulent l'aider. Elle se suicide dans une mare, vaincue par la fatalité.

La joie by Georges Bernanos ( Book )
125 editions published between 1920 and 1997 in 7 languages and held by 911 libraries worldwide

Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc ( Recording )
162 editions published between 1957 and 2011 in 7 languages and held by 851 libraries worldwide
Libretto van en bijdragen over de opera van de Franse componist (1899-1963).

Les grands cimetières sous la lune by Georges Bernanos ( Book )
114 editions published between 1938 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 813 libraries worldwide
"En 1936, la guerre civile éclate en Espagne. Bernanos d'abord séduit par le franquisme, est très vite révolté par la violence de la répression anti-républicaine. De cette révolte naîtront les Gands cimetières sous la lune.

L'imposture, roman by Georges Bernanos ( Book )
96 editions published between 1927 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 813 libraries worldwide
A new translation of a 1927 novel on a French priest who loses his faith and the effect this has on his parishioners. By the author of The Diary of a Country Priest.

Monsieur Ouine by Georges Bernanos ( Book )
96 editions published between 1943 and 2008 in 7 languages and held by 776 libraries worldwide
"" In a small village in northern France, Monsieur Ouine, a retired professor, is taken in by the dull local squire, Anthelme de Né ré is, and soon rules the life of both Anthelme and his wife, Ginette. A fourteen-year-old fatherless boy, Philippe Dorval, flees home and, on impulse, follows Madame de Né ré is to her châ teau. There the squire, who is dying, tells the boy that his father is actually alive and well- that despite what Philippe' s mother had told him, his father had not died in World War I. The forsaken boy finds himself on that fatal evening succumbing to Monsieur Ouine' s embrace after falling into a drunken sleep in the old professor' s bed. The events of the tempestuous night lead to upheaval in the village the next morning, when, at dawn, a boy' s body is found afloat in a stream near the châ teau.

Un crime by Georges Bernanos ( Book )
117 editions published between 1935 and 1997 in 5 languages and held by 700 libraries worldwide