{"product_id":"a-bad-dreak","title":"A Bad Dreak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Bad Dream,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eGeorges Bernanos’s posthumously published final novel, is a crime story in the vein of his debut novel\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnder the Sun of Satan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand his compatriot François Mauriac’s novel\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Dark Angels\u003c\/i\u003e. In the novel’s first part, Bernanos provides a background of the jaded author Emmanuel Ganse and his tortured assistant, Olivier, who cut figures of unsuspecting complicity for the story’s ultimate drama. Both Ganse and Olivier harbor obsessions for Simone Alfieri, but only Olivier is successful in pursuing her—little suspecting that Simone’s superficial saintliness and “tremendous moral resistance” belie the ruthlessness that will drive her to violence. As the story moves through its second part, Simone concocts her deadly design, even as she wills her spiritual self-immolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhy shouldn’t bad dreams be borne by two people together? Bad dreams are a heavy weight to carry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining a nightmare’s forbidding ambiguity with the piercing specificity of reality,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Bad Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewrestles with the fundamentally supernatural aspect of crime: its origination in the Father of Lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorges Bernanos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1888–1948) was a French author and critic, and winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française in 1936 (for his novel\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Diary of a Country Priest\u003c\/i\u003e). A devout Roman Catholic, Bernanos wrote numerous novels, stories, and essays on the nature of faith, society, and suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e198pp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41900618580132,"sku":"","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0431\/7718\/1348\/products\/978-1952826320-FrontCover.jpg?v=1646689455","url":"https:\/\/catholic-nonprod.myshopify.com\/products\/a-bad-dreak","provider":"catholic nonprod","version":"1.0","type":"link"}