François Mauriac: A Critical Study Marcel Contemplation

Contemplation

he and his family fight forces both natural and social—floods and famine

Just as Christ sang a hymn after the Last Supper

the novel retains the Alvear family and Gerona as its psychological and geographical nuclei while also traversing the entirety of Spain as the chaos of the conflict dictates

per Philip Hughes

François Mauriac: A Critical Study Marcel ContemplationBy Michael F. Moloney Widely read, little understoodthus could be described the standing of Franois Mauriac among his fellow Catholics in the twentieth century. Indeed, as Michael F. Moloney writes, no Catholic writer [was] the subject of more controversy among his co religionists than the 1952 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This study aims to set matters to rights with a critical analysis of Mauriacs ideological and artistic influences;