Under the Sun of Satan

This article is about the novel. For the film, see Under the Sun of Satan (film).

Under the Sun of Satan

Author	Georges Bernanos
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]

It is listed #45 on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century.

Adaptations

Television

• Sous le soleil de Satan, téléfilm by Pierre Cardinal (1971) with Maurice Garrel and Catherine Salviat

Cinema

• Sous le soleil de Satan, film de Maurice Pialat (1987) with Gérard Depardieu and Sandrine Bonnaire. The film won the Palme d'or at the Festival de Cannes 1987.

References

1. Bernanos, Œuvres romanesques, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gallimard 1961 p. 1758.

External links

• Under the Sun of Satan on Goodreads