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The Desert of Love, and The Enemy. By Francois Mauriac. Trans- THE fourth volume of M. Mauriac's work in translation contains two shortish novels with a common theme. It is a theme which lies very. François Mauriac: Le Désert de l’amour (The Desert of Love) Raymond Courrèges is a man in his mid-thirties who leads a fairly dissolute life. He has a succession of girlfriends and regularly frequents bars and nightclubs. One night, while in one of his favourite clubs, he sees a woman he used to know seventeen years ago. Find The Desert Of Love by Mauriac, Francois at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.

One of the earlier novels (), in the particular genre of the roman d'analyse for which Mauriac is most famous, this traces with acrupulous care and concern the emotional torment of a father and a son and the woman they both loved. For Dr. Courreges sees that his love for Maria Cross, the mistress of another man, is concealed by his attentions to her as a patient, and is thoroughly. The action is very compressed and the book, which was written 10 years later than The Desert of Love, is perhaps concerned with the spiritual rather than the psychological issue. The two are printed together as variants on one of Mauriac's most persistent themes, the abiding and ever-extending effects of sexual passion, the responsibility we. François Charles Mauriac (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃaʁl moʁjak], Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October - 1 September ) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from ), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in

François Mauriac: Le Désert de l’amour (The Desert of Love) Raymond Courrèges is a man in his mid-thirties who leads a fairly dissolute life. He has a succession of girlfriends and regularly frequents bars and nightclubs. One night, while in one of his favourite clubs, he sees a woman he used to know seventeen years ago. The Desert of Love [Francois Mauriac] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Desert of Love. Mauriac uses a dry and ironic touch to this book. The writing is as sharp and crisp as you could want. Mauriac is often accused of being old-fashioned and ponderous. Not so in this book. It moves. It is a slim volume, packed with meaning in every page. It starts out with a sentence that hooks you first and never lets go. This is rare in a classic.