Georges Bernanos. Le trame del divino tra seduzione e conversione.

The paper aims to analyze a crucial passage from Georges Bernanos' novel Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936) containing the dialogue between the priest of Ambricourt and the character of the countess, during which the young man's words priest prelude the heroine's conversion as well as her death. The word of the religious is configured as a perlocutionary and irreversible act: it seduces in the sense that it calls the recipient of the message to itself, bringing about their conversion. The analysis focuses on the enunciative strategies implemented by the priest of Ambricourt but also on the persuasion exercised thanks to non-verbal communication.