Indignants abound, polemics overflow, virtue spreads out, but we look in vain for where our pamphleteers are, this so French race which, from Léon Bloy to Philippe Muray via Charles Péguy, knew how to make a foil out of the pen, and fight against their time as solitary swordsmen, without belonging to an army, a clan or a camp.
It lacks Georges Bernanos, those men capable of moving
“with friendship or with anger”
, capable of disappointing their parties while remaining faithful to the truth, capable of hope while mercilessly sweeping away the weaknesses of their time.
To discover the author of
Diary of a Country Priest
, and to immerse ourselves in his work as one plunges one's head into a bucket of fresh water during a heat wave, what better guide than the journalist from
Le Figaro littéraire
Sébastien Lapaque?
In
Living and Dying with Georges Bernanos
(Éditions de l'Escargot), a collection of various articles he has devoted to his master in recent years, Lapaque takes us on a walk...
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