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]
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