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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.
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May 18, 2018 · Spiritual Writings and Major Themes. Mauriac's spiritual writings include God and Mammon, The Eucharist, The Mystery of Holy Thursday (the theme of which is Christ lives in individuals as a sacramental reality), and St. Margaret of Cortona , whose martyrdom distracted him from the World War II martyrdom of his nation.
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 ...
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 ...
François Mauriac. François Mauriac (1885–1970), French author and journalist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life.”. A lifelong Catholic, Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, the youngest of five.
were read avidly by the French public. He also continued to write novels. Mauriac’s creative works are characterized by protagonists whose isolation produces spiritual and psychological anguish.
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François Mauriac. François Charles Mauriac was a French writer and a member of the Académie française. He was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life." Mauriac is acknowledged to be one of the greatest Roman ...
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