Concepts and Pictures: Ways of Seeing the Human Person in the Catholic Thought and Literature of Mid-twentieth-century Europe

Charles Moëller , Littérature du XXe siècle et christianisme (4 vols, Tournai, 1962-64)

and L'Homme moderne devant le salut (Paris, 1965).

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Le Chrétien Bernanos ( Paris, 1956).

Iris Murdoch , The Sovereignty of Good (London, 1970 ), 65.

See, for example, J.C. Whitehouse , "Catholic Writing: Some Basic Notions, Some Criticisms and a Tentative Reply", Modern Language Review, lxxiii (1978 ), 241-9 ;

"Christianity and Letters", Bradford Occasional Papers , i (1980), 1-57;

"The Human Person in the Novels of Graham Greene", Research in English and American Literature, ii (1984), 397-443;

"'A Certain Idea of Man': The Human Person in the Novels of Georges Bernanos" , Modern Language Review, lxxx (1985), 571-85;

"Religion as Fulfilment of the Human Person in the Novels of Sigrid Undset" (to appear in Renascence in 1986).

Sigrid Undset , The Burning Bush (London, 1932 ), 376.

Georges Bernanos , Sous le Soleil de Satan ("Oeuvres romanesques", Paris, 1963), 235.

Graham Greene , Brighton Rock (London, 1970), 91.

Bernanos , Sous le Soleil de Satan , 83.

Graham Greene , The Heart of the Matter (London, 1951 ), 108.

Undset , The Burning Bush, 207.

Bernanos , Sous le Soleil de Satan, 235.

Georges Bernanos , Un Mauvais Rêve ("Oeuvres romanesques", Paris, 1963), 965.

Georges Bernanos , Journal d'un curé de campagne ("Oeuvres romanesques" , Paris, 1963), 1126.

Ibid., 1127

. Sigrid Undset , Ida Elisabeth (London, 1933), 287 and

Madame Dorothea (London, 1941), 76, respectively.

Bernanos , Sous le Soleil de Satan, 116.

Undset , The Burning Bush, 342.

Augustine, Confessions, I, i.

Alan Pryce-Jones , Graham Greene (London, 1963), 100.

Jean-Paul Sartre , La Nausée ("Oeuvres romanesques", Paris, 1981), 138.

For an introductory survey of these later French Catholic writers, see Joseph Majault , L'Evidence et le mystère (Paris, 1978 )

and articles by David O'Connell , Eva Kushner , Joseph Majault , J.C. Whitehouse , Yves-Alain Favre , Roger Bichelberger , Michael Barlow and William Cloonan in Renascence, xxxvi, nos 1- 2 (1983-84), a special issue on "Catholic Writers in France: The Generation of 1915".