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Nobel Prizewinner Francois Mauriac, author of close to 60 books: "Our policy at present yields only immobility and rottenness. What is there to say of this unending swirl of opinions around the European army, on which, at Bermuda, our allies watched the two French corks dancing? The crimes of personal life can be redeemed and erased, but not those of political life. Because it never stops, because it develops unceasingly in all directions and on all levels, history does not pardon the consequences of a deed once done nor does it pardon our evasions and our refusals...
...Francois Mauriac's specialty consists in creating a handful of morally diseased characters and dragging them through a couple of hundred pages reeking of sin and sensuality. The French, including many devout Roman Catholics, have an unpleasant word to describe the distinguished Catholic author's novels. It is malsain-unhealthy. In The Mask of Innocence, a thoroughly unpleasant novel about thoroughly unpleasant people, Nobel Prizewinner Mauriac sets out to illustrate the doctrine that even moral leprosy can be cured by divine grace...
...Novelist Mauriac has done poor service to his thesis, and little to illuminate Christian doctrine, by trying to impose it with a mechanically applied formula. His 203-page demonstration of Gradėre's irremediable villainy is not easily erased by a few phrases on the last three pages. As a novelist, Prizewinner Mauriac has committed his own sin: he has failed to bring the flesh of dramatic substance to the skeleton of an idea...
...Francois Mauriac, Nobel Prize-winning novelist: "Step back a little . . . leave me alone, face to face with this eternity which I have not been able to face since I entered this world...
...winner: France's null Mauriac (TIME...