Under the Sun of Satan
Classic French novel
Author | Georges Bernanos |
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Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Plon |
Publication place | France |
Under the Sun of Satan (French: Sous le soleil de Satan) is Georges Bernanos's first published novel, appearing in 1926 in Paris.
According to Michel Estève, the novel draws on three primary inspirations: the life of the curate Jean-Marie Vianney, which informs the character Donissan; the writers Léon Bloy and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, from whom Bernanos takes the idea of a world deprived of God and the idea of a union of reality and the supernatural, respectively; and the social climate of France after World War I, which Bernanos vocally decried.[1]
It is listed #45 on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century.
Adaptations
Television
- Sous le soleil de Satan, téléfilm by Pierre Cardinal (1971) with Maurice Garrel and Catherine Salviat
Cinema
- Sous le soleil de Satan, film de Maurice Pialat (1987) with Gérard Depardieu and Sandrine Bonnaire. The film won the Palme d'or at the Festival de Cannes 1987.
References
- ^ Bernanos, Œuvres romanesques, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gallimard 1961 p. 1758.
External links
- Under the Sun of Satan on Goodreads
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Georges Bernanos
- 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)