François Charles Mauriac (1885–1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, essayist, critic, poet, and journalist. This winner in 1952 of the Nobel Prize in Literature was the leading novelist of the Roman Catholic faith.
Born in Bordeaux, Mauriac was educated at the University of Bordeaux, then the École Nationale des Charles in Paris in 1906, but left to become a poet, publishing his first volume of verse in 1909.
Mauriac belonged to the lineage of French Catholic writers who examined the ugly realities of modern life in the light of eternity. In his novels, his treatment of the themes of temptation, sin, grace, and redemption, set in the brooding Bordeaux countryside, show his art as cathartic, exploring the universal problems of sinful, yet aspiring, man.
Mauriac’s major titles are Le Baiser au lépreux (1922; The Kiss to the Leper, 1923,) Génitrix (1923; 1930,) Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927; 1928,) and Le Nœud de vipères (1932; Vipers’ Tangle, 1933.) Mauriac’s plays included Asmodée (1938; The Intruder, 1939.)
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To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
—Francois Mauriac
Topics: Miracles
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
—Francois Mauriac
Topics: Weakness
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
—Francois Mauriac
Topics: Destiny
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