The Double Vocation: Christian Presence in Twentieth-Century French Fiction

In this critical study, Professor Dunaway probes the divided nature of the so-called Catholic novelists in French literature: namely, how to serve the Christian ethic and at the same time portray the modern world in a realistic fashion without religious distortion. Special emphasis has been given to the works of Georges Bernanos, Francois Mauriac, and the French-American author, Julien Green. In addition, the author features the ficitional works of Vladimir Volkoff, a prize-winning Franco-Russian novelist, for the first time in English.