By Georges Bernanos

The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon is Georges Bernanos’s first-hand account of the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. Employing the same prodigious literary talent displayed in his many novels, Bernanos recounts the acts of terrorism that swept through the community of Majorca. Disgusted with the rampant materialism and pseudo-Christianity of European society at the end of the 1930s, Bernanos saves his most vehement criticism for the Spanish clergy, denouncing them for their failure to be faithful to the Gospel in their complicity and complacency. Each page displays the sensitivity of the author to suffering and his firm conviction of the good that Christians could do if they would eschew the comforts of indifference for the yoke of holiness.

Condensed from the original French edition (and first published in English as A Diary of My Times in 1938), The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon is a sobering record of the emergence of social chaos and the mystery of evil.

I have sworn to move you either to anger or love, and I do not care which. (Georges Bernanos)

Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) was a French Catholic author and critic. Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française in 1936 (for his novel The Diary of a Country Priest), Bernanos had numerous works adapted into film with great critical success; he remains one of the most respected writers of the twentieth-century France.

Paperback: 226pp.

ISBN: 978-1944418878