... of Georges Bernanos: An Essay in Interpretation. By GERDABLUMENTHAL. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. xxi + 154 pp. $4.50. Georges Bernanos’ great strength as a novelist lies in his ability to create mood and atmosphere and to sustain them by means of obsessive patterns of imagery...

... trauma that originated in the Great War, he is mainly concerned with the activities of the three writers he has chosen-Henri Barbusse, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, and Georges Bernanos-in subsequent decades and particularly in the cru- cial years of the thirties which led into the Greater...

... with it. DAVIDDAICHES University of Sussex The Poetic Imagination of Georges Bernanos: An Essay in Interpretation. By GERDABLUMENTHAL. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. xxi + 154 pp. $4.50. Georges Bernanos’ great strength as a novelist lies in his ability to create mood...

... case-by perpetual self-examination or-as in that of Bernanos-by perpetual self- condemnation. The fact is that, though Field shows him to have said and committed as many absurdities as Barbusse or Drieu, Bernanos still seems alive and pertinent to our day, while the others do...

..., and the novelist does not mind furnishing evidence for a possible revision of conclusions, that is to say, for a “proc6s du prOC&s.” 380 Reviaus Professor Peyre does not hide his lack of sympathy for those who, like CCline and Bernanos, did not practice economy...

..., Claudel, Valiry, Colette, Girau- doux, Roger Martin du Gard, Mauriac, Duhamel, Jules Romains, Montherlant, Green, Malraux, Saint Exupdry. There are more, such as Maurres, Bernanos, Mine, Giono, who will be treated in a forth- coming volume. Our space being strictly limited we can only...

... that occasionally all of them allow “the idea” to dominate over the free imaginative process. She remarks of Aragon that he “sees the upper classes as individuals, the working class as a group” (p. 238). Bernanos and Mauriac engaged actively in political controversy, but as jour- nalists, not allowing...

..., and we have made him pay dearly for having allowed poetry, mystery, and even tragedy to elude his grasp. Still, an impartial reevaluation of his best novels would reward a scholar, and it is not likely to come from France herself, where Mauriac, Bernanos, and Green have rendered fairness...

..., such as Maurres, Bernanos, Mine, Giono, who will be treated in a forth- coming volume. Our space being strictly limited we can only jot down a few notes. The first chapter, “La littkrature franqaise entre deux guerres.” gives a valuable bird’s-eye view of the period. The years 1919-1930...

... opened by him was widely followed. Many writers of France : Maurras, Bernanos, Fernandez, Van der Meersch criticized the “liberal” ideas. Around 1930 the implications of Pkguy’s doctrine and action were put into life and began to grow. The religious sought to obtain “the liberties of which...

..., including Roger Martin du Gard, Queneau, and Marcel Aymi, previously somewhat neglected, are allotted considerable space. This choice may not, of course, be acceptable to all, but such selections are matters of personal judgment. This reviewer shares the feeling that Bernanos is a great...

... Bernanos: A Study of the Man and the Writer. New York: Liveright, 1974. 285 pp. $8.95. Spencer, Michael. Michel Butor. New York: I’wayne, TWAS 275, 1974. 187 pp. $6.95. GENERAL Anderson, James IM.Structural Aspects of Language Change. New York: Longman...

..., seems more concerned with theological discussions between unbe- lievers and catholic or protestant dogmatists, than with actual re- ligious life. One of the consistently Catholic writers, Bernanos, is certainly stirring in his prose, but he is not catholic in the etymolog- ical sense...

... that the greatest delight about joining a party is in the thought that one may betray it. But the essential aspect of the new Romantic revolt today is meta- physical. Malraux and Camus are its greatest prophets. But Giono and Bernanos, Breton and Eluard, Char and Ponge, Anouilh and Sartre, are also...

..., John S. Enrique Gonzcilez Martinez. New York: Twayne, TWAS 88, 1969. I66 pp. Bush, William. Georges Bernanos. New York: Twayne, TWAS 71, 1969. 171 pp. Caws, hJary Ann. The Poetry of Dada and Surrealism: Aragon, Breton, Tzara, Eluard Q Demos. Princeton: Princeton...

... ROMANCELANGUAGES Blumenthal, Gerda. The Poetic Imagination of Georges Bernanos: An Essay in Interpretation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. xxi + 154 pp. $4.50. Cargo, Robert T. (editor). Concordance to Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965...

.... Vol. 11. Madison and Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964. vi + 365 pp. $7.50. 362 BOOKS RECEIVED Hebblethwaite, Peter, S. J. Bernanos: An Introduction. New York: Hillary House, Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought...

... Protestantismo con el catolicismo, I, 114. Q consparado 67 Georges Bernanos a par16 pertinemment de cette fameuse question de l’ordre dans Lcs Grands ciinetihres sous la hne, pp. 209-10 et 231-37. 350 Le Traditionalisme dam 1’Espagne modeme Conserver l’ordre et l’unit6...