The Impostor (novel)
The Impostor (French: L'Imposture) is a 1927 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos. It tells the story of a priest who loses his faith and sets out to rediscover his soul together with an elderly cleric.
Reception
Publishers Weekly wrote in 1999: "Austere, intellectually challenging and, occasionally, achingly poignant in the tradition of French-Catholic mysticism, the novel achieves a certain quiet spiritual triumph, a faith-at-low-ebb form made popular in the English-speaking world by The Power and the Glory."[1] Kirkus Reviews called the book "An often maddeningly discursive work that, nevertheless, accumulates great power in a devastating portrayal of a tormented soul that itself becomes a tormentor."[2]
References
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- Under the Sun of Satan (1926)
- The Impostor (1927)
- Joy (1929)
- The Crime (1935)
- The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
- Mouchette (1937)
- Monsieur Ouine (1943)
- Night Is Darkest (1950)
- Diary of a Country Priest (1951 film)
- Dialogues of the Carmelites (1957 opera)
- Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960 film)
- Mouchette (1967 film)
- Under the Sun of Satan (1987 film)
- Mouchette.org (1996 website)
- Dialogue of Shadows (2013 film)