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François Mauriac has 631 books on Goodreads with 2005898 ratings. François Mauriac’s most popular book is Thérèse Desqueyroux.
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- Proust's Way
In this short, but deeply intimate book, Francois Mauriac...
- The Loved And The Unloved
I learn more from Mauriac than any other author and my love...
- The Son of Man
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- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was an English poet, Roman...
- It Was OK
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François Mauriac. François Charles Mauriac ( French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃaʁl moʁjak], Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952).
- 1 September 1970 (aged 84), Paris, France
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Thérèse Desqueyroux ( French pronunciation: [teʁɛz dɛskɛʁu]) is a 1927 French novel by François Mauriac . Plot. The novel is set in the Landes, a sparsely populated area of south-west France covered largely with pine forests. As it opens, a court case is being dismissed.
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François Charles Mauriac was a French writer and a member of the Académie française. He was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life."
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Mar 26, 2024 · François Mauriac was a novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, journalist, and winner in 1952 of the Nobel Prize for Literature. He belonged to the lineage of French Catholic writers who examined the ugly realities of modern life in the light of eternity. His major novels are sombre, austere.
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Other outstanding novels are Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927) [Thérèse], Le Noeud de vipères (1932) [The Knot of Vipers], La Fin de la nuit (1935) [The End of the Night], and La Pharisienne (1941) [A Woman of the Pharisees]. His most recent work has been a study of Charles de Gaulle (1964).
The Woman of the Pharisees. François Mauriac, Gerard Hopkins (Translator) 3.82. 282ratings31reviews. Kindle $3.99. "A deeply impressive novel by an author whose growth has been continuous and whose stature makes so much contemporary fiction seem sadly thin by comparison."--