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...Francois Mauriac-Pellegrini & Cudahy...
...novelist of religious mind, sin is a pervasive subject. But François Mauriac, a Roman Catholic and one of the most gifted of living French novelists, was pulled up short 23 years ago by the challenge of a friend and fellow Catholic: Was Mauriac's fascination with sin a shade too rapt for piety? Advised Thomist Jacques Maritain: let Mauriac examine his soul to see whether it was pure enough to portray evil "without conniving with...
Russia. In a recent Le Figaro editorial, for example. Novelist François Mauriac wrote: It is not that which separates the U.S.S.R. from the U.S.A. which should frighten us, but rather what they have in common." Mme. Cotnareanu tried to fire Brisson, but Brisson, with the publishing license from the government safely in his pocket, stayed...
...Figaro still carries a great deal of literary and theatrical criticism, but these days it lays more emphasis than ever before on sports, serial stories of topical interest and Page One editorials by Mauriac and Author Andre Siegfried (America Comes of Age). The change in ownership will presumably bring no change in policies. Under Director Brisson, Le Figaro will continue to mock whatever fools and opposition it chooses...
...Foreigners. It was also a year in which many well-known French novelists were brought to U.S. readers in translation. Three novels by François Mauriac acquainted U.S. readers with the painful penetration and classic structural quality of this eminent Catholic writer. The first two novels of Jean Paul Sartre's trilogy on France before World War II were studies in demoralization. André Gide reached All Hallows with the Nobel Prize and U.S. publication of the first volume of his Journals...