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| | 2. |  | A Mauriac Reader
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $22.81
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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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| | 4. |  | Therese (Twentieth-Century Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $11.01
Customer Review:
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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| | 7. |  | Therese Desqueyroux (French Edition)
from Livre de Poche
Price: $5.95
Customer Review:
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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