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Also known as: “Les Grands Cimetières sous la lune”

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In Georges Bernanos
…Cimetières sous la lune (1938; A Diary of My Times, 1938), a fierce attack on Fascist excesses during the Spanish Civil War and on the church dignitaries who supported them.
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In French literature: Politics subordinate to other concerns: Mauriac, Bernanos, and others
A Diary of My Times) denounces General Francisco Franco’s Falangists. The tradition of the family novel was continued by Roger Martin du Gard’s novel cycle Les Thibault (1922–40). A different kind of family, reared in poverty and engaged in trade union action, was described by…
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