Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VIPERS' TANGLE (288 pp.) - François Mauriac, translated by Warre B. Wells -Sheed & Ward...
THERESE (383 pp.)-François Mauriac, translated by Gerard Hopkins-Holt...
Though little-known in the U.S., François Mauriac ranks as one of France's half-dozen best living novelists. The publishing house of Holt is currently engaged in bringing out a uniform U.S. edition of all his works,* confident that he will shortly be as highly regarded in the U.S. as in his home country. But the forbidding theme of his novels may scare off many U.S. readers: Mauriac dwells in the gloomy fogs and disasters of moral corruption and puts a bleak emphasis on the wages...
...Author. Aging (62) François Mauriac, a leading Roman Catholic opponent of the Franco regime in Spain, joined the resistance movement during World War II. Producing clandestine pamphlets, newspapers and books with such fellow writers & artists as Communist Poet Louis Aragon, he learned to respect the fighting qualities of the Communists. After the war he sought for a way to bring the U.S. and Russia together, has since decided that compromise is impossible. He now writes editorials for Paris' conservative daily Figaro, advocating a strong, vigilant western world under U.S. leadership...
...Gaulle or Communism? The political crisis was stepped up by the nationwide municipal elections (Oct. 19). Who would win, Charles de Gaulle's R.P.F. (Rassemblement du Peuple Français) or the Communists? If the R.P.F. won, De Gaulle would sooner or later come to power and move against the Communists. They would be faced with a hard choice: submission and virtual extinction or defiance and civil war. Russia would be faced with an even harder choice: should she support the French Communist Party with arms, or lose one of her biggest fifth columns in Europe...