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...President, at 73 and just five months after his prostate operation, on a dead run for more than three weeks. Gaullist newspapers worried in print about the "alarming trip" that would take their hero to "the land of revolutions, of assassination attempts one after another." Novelist François Mauriac, a most emotional Gaullist, wrote in Figaro Litte-rairé: "I fear this trip, I detest it; it seems to me a provocation of destiny. I ask myself if the personnage, already legendary, is not giving in for the first time to the vertigo of his own legend...
...WOMEN ARE FATAL by Claude Mauriac. 308 pages. Braz...
...speculate about writing a treatise, in the form of a novel, to be titled: The Phenomenology of Physical Love. The secret is out; this Don Juan is not a sexual athlete but a literary one, an aspiring philosopher of womanizing. As the reader reads on, he discovers that Claude Mauriac's new novel is hardly a novel at all, but more an anthology of aphorisms about the Frenchmen's favorite topic...
...such earlier novels as The Dinner Party, Author Mauriac (son of famed Catholic Novelist Francois Mauriac) proved himself one of the more readable and entertaining of the French writers apparently doing business as "new realists." This time, reaching for profundity about love and sex, he succeeds only in demonstrating that Don Juan, after all, is Johnny One-Note...
...Mauriac and Franju are no fools; why did they cast Therese as a sensitive heroine to begin with? The fault lies as much with their adaption of the novel as with the direction. By cutting the story of Therese's failure to make a new life in Paris, of her degeneration into a paranoid and confused old lady, they change a tragic character into a superficial...