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François Charles Mauriac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃaʁl moʁjak]; Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the ...
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Quick Reference. (1885–1970) French novelist. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1933 and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952. Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, the setting for many of his novels, into a pious family of the upper middle classes. His strict Catholic upbringing had a marked effect on his literary works, the ...
Apr 1, 2008 · Mauriac was more a product of his age than of his genius, argues Welch. Although Mauriac remained prominent throughout the 1960s, Welch relegates him to the ‘arrière-garde’, dismisses him as a Gaullist ‘myth-maker’, and claims he was an intellectual only between his veer to the left in 1937 and his support for de Gaulle from 1958 on.
- Nathan Bracher
- 2008
François Mauriac espoused Jansenism, a movement within Catholicism asserting that an individual’s fate was predestined by God and focused on original sin and the mystery of God’s grace. These themes can be seen in Mauriac’s writings, which revolve around humankind’s helplessness without God’s grace and the bourgeois family’s mendacity and hypocrisy.
Winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature, François Mauriac (mawr-yahk) is unquestionably one of the most prolific and versatile writers of twentieth century France. He was born in Bordeaux ...
The Public Writer (1943-1970): While certainly Mauriac was already a famous novelist and essayist, World War II brought a transition to Mauriac’s literary pursuits. Mauriac increasingly moved to public journalism, plays, and memoirs. He did publish a few more novels. The Lamb is considered one of his
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