Whitehouse, J. C.

Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) was one of the twentieth century's most forceful and idiosyncratic writers and perhaps the most original Roman Catholic writer of his time. He wrote most of his major fiction in a period of barely twelve years, between 1926 and 1937, including his best-known work, "The Diary of a Country Priest," J. C. Whitehouse is Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Bradford. He is the author of "Vertical Man: The Human Being in the Catholic Novels of Graham Greene, Sigrid Undset, and Georges Bernanos" and the translator of many books, including Bernanos's "The