Écriture de dénonciation et écriture de l’enfance: l’écriture presque impossible des Grands Cimetières sous la lune
Denouncing and/while Writing on Childhood: the Quasi‐Impossible Task of Writing A Diary of My Times

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between faith and betrayal involves thinking of the way that various forms of language relate to one another: faith seems to associate with a language following the right path, while, on the contrary, betrayal is consistent with a language which strays. We believe that in his Diary of My Time Georges Bernanos is denouncing the Church’s betrayal of faith. In order to do that, he has to blend the denunciation speech and the speech of pure faith, which can be seen as the language of childhood. This article wants to show that Bernanos tends to asymptotically push language towards this ideal idiom: the “original” language of childhood, i.e. the language of pure faith. But such project seems doomed never to be accomplished.

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