Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zurich some 80 angels, mostly female, flocked to a heaven (in a "restaurant sans alcool"), to hear a German translation of Father Divine's latest "office talk." Reader Alfred Riesen, Father's governor in Switzerland, kept asking: "Aren't you glad?" Many angels wept for joy. "We thank thee, Father," they sang. "Oh, how wonderful is our Father Divine. . . . We belong to him with every atom of our body and soul...
...JOY-Georges Bernanos (297 pp.)-Translated by Louise Varèse-Panfheon Books...
Georges Bernanos is France's most distinguished Catholic author-and his own Church's sharpest critic. His literary reputation rests chiefly on three religious novels : Diary of a Country Priest, Joy, The Star of Satan (TIME, June 17, 1940). Joy won the Prix Femina in 1929, and now appears in translation for the first time...
...difference between Joy and such popular religious novels as The Robe and The Song of Bernadette is the difference between a papal nuncio and a parish priest. Essentially a parable of intellectual temptation, the book is primarily dialectical in method, and almost wholly devoid of the usual stage effects of fiction. It is charged with burning vitality, but its drama exists mainly in the consciences of the characters...
Saint & Symbol. Joan of Arc, France's patron saint-who was persuaded by her inquisitors to deny her visionary powers-has long served Bernanos as a symbol of Republican France. Joy's heroine, Chantal de Clergerie, is a much-modified Joan, facing present-day inquisitors in modern dress...