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The Woman of the Pharisees one of Mauriac’s most accomplished novels is a penetrating evocation of the moral and religious values of a Bordeaux community. In Brigitte, we see how the ideals of love and companionship are stifled in the presence of a self righteous woman whose austere religious principals lead her to interfere disasterously in ...
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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). He was awarded the Grand ...
Mauriac is acknowledged to be one of the greatest Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century. 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 ...
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The Public Writer (1943-1970): While certainly Mauriac was already a famous novelist and essayist, World War II brought a transition to Mauriac’s literary pursuits. Mauriac increasingly moved to public journalism, plays, and memoirs. He did publish a few more novels. The Lamb is considered one of his
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François Mauriac (born Oct. 11, 1885, Bordeaux, France—died Sept. 1, 1970, Paris) 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.
