Also published as: Under Satan's Sun

Author: Georges Bernanos Year: 1926 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Classic Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Google Books Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781944418557 1944418555

Under the Sun of Satan, Georges Bernanos’s powerful debut novel, throws the reader headlong into the mystery of evil and the drama of salvation. Saturated with dramatic intensity and marked with Bernanos’s inimitable fitful style, the novel follows young Fr. Donissan, a man of fervent faith but limited intelligence, striving to serve the Lord in his rural ministry. The priest’s ability to plumb the depths of his flock’s inner lives, along with his awareness of Satan on the prowl, grant him formidable opportunities of grace—with a girl fallen prey to prostitution, with a child on the cusp of death, and with his fellow priests struggling with doubt. Meditative, keenly insightful, at times alarming, Under the Sun of Satan displays the masterful scope of Bernanos’s artistic vision, a vision which only grew in clarity with his later works. Similar books: The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway Against The Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter Quartet by Jean Rhys The Temptation of St. Anthony by Gustave Flaubert Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert The Fencing Master by Alexandre Dumas The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France The Shackle by Colette The Other One by Colette Tarr by Wyndham Lewis Memoirs of a Madman by Gustave Flaubert East of Eden by John Steinbeck Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Stoner by John Williams