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Mauriac Fran?ois . 1885--1970, French novelist, noted esp for his psychological studies of the conflict between religious belief and human desire. His works include Le d?sert de l'amour (1925), Th?r?se Desqueyroux (1927), and Le nœud de vip?res (1932): Nobel prize for literature 1952 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But the experience of stalemate and partial occupation in two world wars gave rise to a series of figures--not only Sartre and Camus, but also outstanding philosophes such as Raymond Aron, George Gurvitch, Henri Lefebvre, Emmanuel Mounier, Francois Mauriac, and others drawn from a variety of perspectives ranging from Catholicism to Communism--who reflected on the war lost and empire frayed, and what was needed to establish a liberated Europe in a democratic universe. But much came from the university itself which (under the influence of several remarkable men--most of them American Irish, by the way) was teaching a humanities curriculum that instructed the National Champion football-playing sons of Catholic immigrants in neo-Thomism, the Greeks and Dante, as well as the English classics, and had us reading Bernanos, Mauriac, Acton, Pascal, Burke, Berdyaev, et al. That summer I read and discussed five books, starting with a dark novel by Francois Mauriac, which made me realize immediately that a whole French book was difficult and, worse still, long. |
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