Absent of all "psychologism," like all judgment of value, the director uniquely raises a question to something of significance to himself, thereby making Diary of a Country Priest a captivating and mysterious work. Brrrr. Tibbetts, John C., and James M. Welsh, eds. though i remember it only dimly, i know that it changed my life, the way some books do. A challenging read, but a strangely captivating one. ― Georges Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest. Journal d'un curé de campagne by Bernanos, Georges, 1937, The Macmillan Company edition, in English [2], This film marked a transition period for Bresson, as he began using non-professional actors (with the exception of the Countess). Something severe, drizzling, gray, wintery, absolutely self-denying if not self-torturing. Bernanos is acutely aware of the jockeying within a parish: the importance of the priest's image among the churchgoers and among the Catholic hierarchy, and, most vividly, his relationship with the troubled family of the local nobility. Bernanos rejected Aurenche's first draft. Recommended. He has the gentleness of the lamb (Zurbaran ... ), and much compassion. But as a wise priest says in the book, “Man can’t live on jam.” This book is a book that can be lived on, however hard it is to digest. "[7] American director Martin Scorsese said the film influenced his own Taxi Driver (1976). Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise, The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by Robert Bresson. The main character in a Diary of a Country Priest is the nameless narrator and the priest of the title. "A book of the utmost sensitiveness and compassion...it is a work of deep, subtle and singularly encompassing art." It has won the USA Today Spiritual Book of the Century Award and is number 3 on the list of top-rated classical Catholic Fiction. By the time Bresson worked on the screenplay, Bernanos had died. Language is at the service of intelligence. Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos is the story of a young and inexperienced priest who goes to work as a member of the clergy in a small, rural community in France. In Marilynne Robinson's GILEAD (2005), to which it has been compared, the psychological drama is mostly displaced and off-stage; we get hints of the narrator's moral and spiritual growth. On p. 55 I skipped ahead to see if anything would ever actually happen to dilute all the fluffy introspection and it didn’t look promising. Also, her choice of dialects was terrible (French peasants who speak like Irish or Cockneys!) I never could figure out why Mlle Chantal was such an angry bitch and why she insisted on tormenting the priest. like If This Is a Man. Something that makes all the seventeenth century French Jesuit martyrs more comprehensible, as they continued to celebrate mass with all or perhaps just eight or nine of their fingers having been hilariously amputated by the Hurons or the Iroquois. there are good books somewh. It was closely based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos. The doctor examines him, observes all the local people have been weakened by the alcoholism of their parents, … Diary of a Country Priest, first published in 1936, is just what the title suggests: the fictional journal of a young curate in rural France. What was her secret? The book was published in English in 1937 in a translation by Pamela Morris. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? One day you will know, you will understand, you will thank Me. Review/Thoughts: [I will begin with my only complaint, the reason I gave 4 instead of 5 stars, as it is pretty minor]. The Pathetic as Hero: “The Diary of a Country Priest” by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph October 30, 2020 The first-person narrative in George Bernanos’ The Diary of a Country Priest might divert our attention from the heart of the novel, at least for a few chapters: unsuspecting readers might suppose that the young Curé’s career as a village pastor will control the tale. He struggles with faith, the role of suffering, the nature of evil and almost every other major religious topic as he strives to maintain his integrity and faithful stewardship over a very problematic. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 95% approval rating based on 37 critics, with an average rating of 8.7/10. 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