{"product_id":"a-bad-dream","title":"A Bad Dream","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGeorges Bernanos\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Bad Dream,\u003c\/b\u003e Georges Bernanos’s posthumously published final novel, is a crime story in the vein of his debut novel \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnder the Sun of Satan\u003c\/i\u003e and his compatriot François Mauriac’s novel \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\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\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\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCombining a nightmare’s forbidding ambiguity with the piercing specificity of reality, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Bad Dream\u003c\/i\u003e wrestles with the fundamentally supernatural aspect of crime: its origination in the Father of Lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorges Bernanos\u003c\/b\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 \u003ci\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 class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 978-1952826320\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51320587944224,"sku":"978-1952826320","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/3678\/2112\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--386.jpg?v=1773076021","url":"https:\/\/treewee.store\/products\/a-bad-dream","provider":"Tree of Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}