Presence of the demonic supernatural in Gogol and Bernanos

This article examines the representation of demonic supernaturalism in the work of two great Christian novelists, Nicolas Gogol and Georges Bernanos. Through a comparative study of a literary and theological nature, Father Michel Evdokimov analyzes the way in which each of these authors depicts the presence of infernal forces in the human world and the means by which they lead man to his perdition. The central idea is that, despite their distinct confessional contexts — Russian Orthodoxy for Gogol, French Catholicism for Bernanos — the two writers share a coherent vision of evil as an active and personal power. The contribution of the article lies in its illumination of a spiritual and anthropological convergence between two different Christian traditions around the reality of the demon in novelistic fiction.