Author: Edward Welch
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401203652
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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While François Mauriac’s reputation as a novelist is well established, it is often forgotten that fiction forms only part of his output, and that in the post-war years especially, it was principally his activities as a journalist which kept him in the public eye. His interventions in the key debates of the period helped to consolidate his position as a major intellectual alongside Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. This book examines the evolution of François Mauriac’s career during the twentieth century, and his gradual transformation from novelist to intellectual. Situating Mauriac and his activities firmly in their socio-cultural context, it draws in particular on the insights provided by Bourdieusian sociology to explore the mechanisms and social processes which allow Mauriac to emerge as an authoritative voice of moral conscience. In doing so, it offers new perspective on key moments in his career, from his changing fortunes as a novelist in the 1930s, examined here for the first time through the prism of his reception by the influential Nouvelle Revue française, to his unlikely collaboration with the then-radical L’Express in the 1950s. At the same time, it argues that tracing Mauriac’s trajectory helps to crystallise the broader changes affecting the literary and cultural landscape in France during the twentieth century.
Author: Marlène N'Garo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782811402952
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 60
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Author: Jean Le Boël
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ISBN: 9782901245025
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 143
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Author: Paul Cooke
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900448986X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Although internationally renowned as a novelist, journalist, and essayist, Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac (1885-1970) never established a reputation as a poet. Yet it was Maurice Barrès’s favourable review of his first collection of verse, Les Mains jointes, that launched Mauriac’s career in 1910. He went on to publish three further collections of poems and insisted to the end of his life that, despite critical neglect of his verse, he remained first and foremost a poet. This book offers the first ever in-depth exploration of the whole of Mauriac’s verse output. After a chapter tracing his general conception of poetry and comparing his ideas to those of other poets and theorists, each of Mauriac’s verse collections is analysed in turn, as are many of his poems that were published exclusively in literary journals. A final chapter explores the significant relationship between Mauriac’s verse and his novels, revealing the multiple connections between these two series of texts. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in twentieth-century French poetry and, more generally, to those interested in the relationship between verse and prose.
Author: Louis Moëllic
Publisher: Editeur Independant
ISBN: 2353351212
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 190
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Literature and ideas from the renaissance to the present.
Author: Sylloge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782875053626
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 276
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Author: David O'Connell
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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In this new entry in Twayne's World Authors Series, David O'Connell provides an exceptionally well written, jargon-free introduction to Mauriac, a thoroughly updated rendition of Maxwell Smith's well received Francois Mauriac (1970). Drawing on a trove of primary source material that has become available in the interim, O'Connell focuses on the people and events influencing Mauriac's personal life and how these were manifested in his writings. Organizing his material partly chronologically and partly by genre, O'Connell surveys the writer's major accomplishments and occasional failings; he sheds much needed light on such developments as the spiritual crisis Mauriac underwent in 1927-30 and the writer's shift from supporter of right-wing causes to leading spokesman for the Resistance during World War II. Observing that Mauriac's "influence at home and abroad was enormous during his lifetime" and that "since his death, no 'Catholic writer' of comparable stature has emerged to replace him", O'Connell underscores Mauriac's enduring place in world literature. Readers seeking a first-rate guide to this cardinal writer need look no further than Francois Mauriac Revisited.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Author: Sophie Perenne
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ISBN: 9782355991714
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Languages : fr
Pages : 123
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Pour beaucoup de peuples, la parole est la première manifestation divine à l'origine de la création. Le Verbe s'est fait chair et a mis de l'ordre dans le chaos. Mais dans le même temps, ce passage du non-manifesté au manifesté a conduit à la dispersion de la parole primordiale et finalement à sa perte. La rechercher et la retrouver parmi les éléments épars est un but essentiel de la quête maçonnique. Mais comment faire '.Où et comment chercher ? Et pour en faire quoi ? Explorant tous les aspects de la parole, de la plus profane à la plus sacrée, Sophie Perenne défriche les chemins à emprunter pour retrouver une parole riche de sens qui éveille et élargit l'âme, une parole de lumière qui émane du plus profond de soi pour s'adresser à ce qu'il y a de plus profond en l'autre, une parole de même nature que le logos créateur. La redécouverte de la puissance créatrice de la parole est la pierre de fondation d'une authentique fraternité universelle.
