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  • Author(s): Trilling, Diana
  • Source:
    Nation. 11/15/1947, Vol. 165 Issue 20, p533-533. 1p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      WHEN the Mountain Fell (Book); RAMUZ, C. F. (Charles Ferdinand), 1878-1947; RELIGION; PEASANTS; DEVOTION
    • Subject Terms:
      SWITZERLANDReport Available
    • Abstract:
      This article presents information about the book "When the Mountain Fell," by C. F. Ramuz. Set in Switzerland, "When the Mountain Fell" tells of a landslide which falls upon the high pastures where a group of peasants graze their cattle each summer. All the group is killed except a young man named Antoine, who manages to tunnel his way back to life. The most significant aspect of the success that has greeted The insidious thing about a book of this sort is although it is a straight religious document and a profoundly anti-intellectual one, it takes no open theological or anti-rational positions; so that even people who might be stopped by a formulated faith are available to its seductions.