Christianity and the Writer's Task
Bernanos, Georges / Heil, John-Paul
Should writers aim to comfort their readers or to shock them out of comfort? Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), one of the great Catholic authors of the twentieth century, argues for the latter. In this incisive series of letters and essays, collected here for the first time in English, Bernanos rails against the propagation of unreflective piety and simplistic views of the divine.
In "Christianity and the Writer's Task, " Bernanos lambasts the med...