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François Mauriac's masterpiece and one of the greatest Catholic novels, Thérèse Desqueyroux is the haunting story of an unhappily married young woman whose desperation drives her to thoughts of murder. Mauriac paints an unforgettable portrait of spiritual isolation and despair, but he also dramatizes the complex realities of forgiveness, grace, and redemption. Set in the countryside outside Bordeaux, in a region of overwhelming heat and sudden storms, the novel's landscape reflects the inner world of Thérèse, a figure who has captured the imaginations of readers for generations. Raymond N. MacKenzie's translation of Thérèse Desqueyroux, the first since 1947, captures the poetic lyricism of Mauriac's prose as well as the intensity of his stream-of-consciousness narrative. MacKenzie also provides notes and a biographical and interpretive introduction to help readers better appreciate the mastery of François Mauriac, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952. This volume also includes a translation of "Conscience, The Divine Instinct," Mauriac's first draft of the story, never before available in English.
"This is Mauriac's first novel, and its appearance in English completes the collected presentation of his works here. Mauriac is the elder statesman of French literature and the Nobel prize-winner, and this small roman d'analyse, traditional in its concerns (he is the most profoundly Christian and Catholic of French writers), is also contemplative in its approach." - Kirkus Reviews
"This study of Mauriac--a recent Nobel Prize Winner--is the first extensive critical assessment in English of a novelist whose reputation inside and outside of France appears to be both firmly established and highly debatable. François Mauriac is a Catholic novelist, not merely a novelist who happens to be a Catholic. The world in which his characters live and the moral law by which they succeed or fail are determined by theology. In a situation in which the judgement of the liberal critic may well be unsettled by the excessive desire to show himself aesthetically immune from theological irritations, this essay, written by a Christian theologian who is also a literary critic, must be of the greatest interest. Martin Jarrett-Kerr, after sketching the background and defining scope of Mauriac's novels, raises the problem of the apologetic novelists in the central section of his study. WIth the help of numerous examples he examines the crucial question of the authenticity of Mauriac's vision. Has Mauriac succeeded in embodying his theological convictions in a truly living world? Or are there points at which religious views and artistic vision remain apart, with the views intruding into the vision and upsetting its integrity? And, moreover, may not flaws in artistic creation reveal flaws in the underlying theological system? Literary examinations of this order are likely to profit from the double equipment, aesthetic and theological, that is at the disposal of the present writer" --
The Enemy is an account of a French widow, deeply imbued with Jansenistic ideas, who raises her songs in an austere, religious atmosphere, shielding them from every source of contact with the wicked world.
The study of a woman whose pious and intense desire to impose her own judgment on others finally brings her world crashing about her.