“Reviews of Books on Spiritual Enlightenment and Literary Purity: Cristina Campo, Mitterrand, de Moulins, and More”

Some books make you want to immerse yourself in reading as on the first day to rediscover the joy of literary discovery. This collection of reviews that sometimes take on spiritual meditation is one of those works that encourage us to go further and higher. Having become untraceable, it was time for it to be reissued.

Cristina Campo, Italian in fragile health, who died in 1977 at the age of 53, did not write much and said that she would have liked to write less, which would have been unfortunate for the reader, but which testifies to a literary requirement tending towards the purity of the Word, and from there is a path to the Word. In this quest, literature is a school of reality because God is the real. And any literature worthy of the name must reflect this. Cristina Campo’s search for Eternity does not prevent her from being caught up in what is unfolding before her eyes, in an era that carried the seeds of the ills of ours.

But the essential is elsewhere, and the Italian sometimes speaks like a Cistercian abbot, that she analyzes the One Thousand and One Nights tales or the apothegms of the Fathers of the desert, recommending the freedom of the heart ” as spiritual hygiene: vigilance with regard to troubles, availability to divine revelation ».

(Theophane Leroux)

Here is an amazing book on a quartet that is no less amazing. Mitterrand, Benouville,Bettencourt and Dalle met young and never left each other. All had links with Vichy, all – more or less – resisted (especially Bénouville), all were on the right politically. And yet, the first of them became President of the Republic under a socialist label. The latter will remain faithful to his friends, who will return it well…

It is this incredible story, where morality does not always count, that Sébastien Le Fol recounts, taking the reader behind the scenes of the IV^e and V^e Republics. Lovers of clichés, Manichaeism, black and white stories, go your way!

(Charles-Henri d’Andigné)

Alexandre, with a painful past as a beaten child, thought he had found happiness and stability with his wife Ava. But when she dies suddenly, he sinks into despair. His mother, upset by his condition, convinced him to reconnect with his passion for horse riding.

Xavier de Moulins weaves a subtle narrative serving a story with several voices. He summons the dead and the living who act in concert to put Alexander back on the path of life. We would have liked that even the most terrible soul of the story be forgiven. Nevertheless, this work constitutes a powerful hymn to life. She demonstrates that it is in this desire for life, in the respect accorded to it, that the greatest marks of love are manifested.

(Marie-Lorraine Roussel)

How many resentments and anathemas could be avoided if one knew oneself better, oneself and the others! A Taiwanese publisher and a well-known Benedictine monk join forces here to decipher several major unconscious psychological mechanisms that can condition us and ruin our relationships: feelings of guilt, passive aggression, projection, inferiority complex, bad distancing, etc.

Illustrated with numerous examples, a work often very precious which (re) puts the achievements of psychology in the light of the Gospel, while avoiding any idolatry with regard to a disciple who has become queen. For Christ liberates us and delivers us precisely from all our complications.

(Diane Gautret)

Incandescence, the dictionary tells us, is the state of a body brought to a high temperature and thus emitting light. That is to say if this title is perfectly suited to evoke three figures who have illuminated the so dark XX^e century, Simone Weil, Maria Zambrano and Cristina Campo, as they burned with a demanding quest for the Truth, at the cost of monastic asceticism. This attachment to Truth is also that to Reality, which is one of the names of God: we are therefore far from nebulous philosophical quibbles, but well at the heart of life.

The reissue of this demanding but clear essay is timely. Of these three authors, choose the best, Bart: it will not be taken from you. Note from the same publisher, the edition of a collection of letters from Campo to Zambrano.

(Theophane Leroux)