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| | 2. |  | DESQUEYROUX THÉRÈSE (French Language)
from Librairie Generale Francaise
Price: $11.96
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firm founded catholic that he was, mauriac was horrified that many readers find therese a sympathetic character; mauriac insisted he intended her to be "a monster," the embodiment of evil. this is one of those books (it has an odd affinity w/madame bovary, another heroine of confused intentions and... more info
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| | 3. |  | Therese Desqueyroux (Sheed & Ward Book)
from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Price: $19.95
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This 1992 novel by Nobel Laureate Francois Mauriac seemed to me to be one of the earliest feminist novels not written by a woman. Mauriac's protagonist, Therese, is a very intelligent, reasonably well-educated, independent woman who marries on a whim and suffers for it, making everyone around her... more info
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| | 4. | [no image] | Woman of the Pharisees
from Resources for Christian Living
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Mauriac demonstrates his masterful powers of observing humanity at its best and its worst. In this story he explores the dynamics of human love within the horizon of Christian faith. He creates characters which embody the ethic of Christian love both in its best form and at its worst incarnations.... more info
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| | 5. |  | Therese (Twentieth-Century Classics)
from Penguin Classics
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Mauriac is a famous writer, after all he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. And yet, this book was rather a disappointment. Perhaps the translation missed some of the poetic literary flow that is a feature of the French original. Other than for the writing style, the plot seemed a bit "thin" to me,... more info
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| | 6. |  | Holy Thursday: An Intimate Remembrance
from Sophia Institute Press
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In this profound and unique book Mauriac is able to touch his readers in a completely unexpected manner. It is a short and simple work yet deeply rich. The reader is given a chance to see the personal spirituality of Mauriac, which is normally more inaccessible in the fiction he is famous for. In... more info
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| | 7. |  | The Desert of Love
from Carroll & Graf Publishers
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I thought this book was very good. It's the story of a father and son who shared a passion for a beautiful, amoral woman. Although not filled with a lot of action or dialogue, Mauriac performs a surgical deconstruction of the psyche of Raymond, Paul, and Maria Cross, the three main characters, that... more info
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| | 10. |  | A Mauriac Reader
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $25.60
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Setting aside for a moment Mauriac's religious beliefs (and it is fully possible to enjoy his work without sharing his Catholicism) Francois Mauriac was an amazingly skillful writer. His short novels are stylistically conservative-- a straightforward realism rules--and, as far as I know, always... more info
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