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They included some of France's most famous writers : Poet Louis Aragon ("François la Colère") ; François Mauriac ("Forez") ; Livération Editor Claude Morgan ("Mortagne"); Poet Jean Cassou ("Jean Noir"), and (anonymously) Roger Giron, Chief of Cabinet in Premier Reynaud's last Government. Reprinted for Les Editions from smuggled foreign copies were John Steinbeck's Nuits Noires (The Moon Is Down) and exiled Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre...
LIFE OF JESUS - François Mauriac- Longmans, Green ($2.50). Simple, sincere retelling of the Gospel narrative, focused on Christ's human aspects. Catholic François Mauriac anticipates that his "rash book" will offend many, but is pleased that it has already won over 100,000 readers in France...
...FAMILY-Frangois Mauriac- translated by Lewis Galantiere-Covici-Friede ($2). Not all French novelists write of the lighter side of love. Author Mauriac, serious though not quite gloomy, here chronicles with particularizing finger the ill fortunes of love in a French family of the Gironde (southwestern department of France). The book is really two novels whose characters are related. First part: Jean Pelouéyre, repulsive but sensitive only son of a rich hypochondriac, has a marriage arranged for him by his father and the priest. The bride is a lovely, sturdy peasant who does not dream of disobeying...
Author Frangois Mauriac, 42, militant Catholic traditionalist, poet, essayist, novelist, is a native of Bordeaux who went to Paris as a young man to lead the literary life. One of his books, Desert of Love, was crowned by the Académie FranÇhise. Other books: Thérèse, Destiny...
Parisian Novelist Francois Mauriac: "It is lucky the jury was chosen among people not given to the habit of reflection. For myself, it would have taken me about a year to make up my mind...