Les nouveaux prêtres: romanTable ronde, 1964 - 312 pages With The New Priests, it is a novel in which Michel de Saint Pierre depicts the clergy of a large parish on the outskirts of Paris, nowadays, in the middle of the Marxist desert. Can a priest be forced by the facts to take sides in temporal quarrels? Doesn't the new race of priests today - often "progressive" - run a mortal danger by bowing their heads in the traps of Marxism, by agreeing to "go a long way" with it? Does it not risk becoming "marxized" in turn? To take perilous political attitudes, which will only benefit the Party without God? And the apostolic successes won by Father Paul Delance - in sometimes dramatic circumstances - are they not due to his spirituality alone? These are the burning questions that are asked here. In this parish of the Parisian suburbs, the characters of Michel de Saint Pierre's new novel, priests and laymen, confront each other with passion, with this disinterested violence that gives everyone the certainty of being right. Even if the author does not doubt his choice and his personal commitment (and this book is an act), he gives all men involved in this conflict the same freedom, the same chance. This is not a novel of ideas, because ideas are priceless, for the author, only embodied in men who fight and suffer for them. And it wouldn't be a novel either, if it weren't to understand by this word only a work of pure imagination; everything is true in this novel, torn apart, feverish, rustling thunderstorms that shake and shake the world today, heralding disasters and redemption. |
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