Word: mauriacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly developed intellect. Many of the students who have come in contact with him comment upon his "genuine concern and wonderful humanity." Master Finley commends him for having achieved "a wonderful balance between the moral and intellectual aspects of University life." He has also balanced his acceptance of Francois Mauriac's skepticism with his own devout Catholicism...
LINES OF LIFE (153 pp.)-François Mauriac- Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
Crossing of Destinies. This is the emotional crux of Mauriac's story. He warns: "The marks left by one individual on another are eternal, and not with impunity can some other's destiny cross our own." Elisabeth, in despair, recognizes that her maternal love for Robert had concealed the extravagant sexuality of a starved woman. Even self-righteous Pierre has a brief moment of horror at what his retailing of gossip has caused, but he quickly comforts himself with the thought that there had been time for Robert to make a confession and receive the last sacraments...
François Mauriac, France's most famed living Catholic novelist, can say more in 150 pages than can most writers in twice that number. Mauriac seems to hold that the sins of a Robert Lagave are venial because he is the sort of mindless pagan who could scarcely recognize God if he met Him in a blaze of light on the road to Damascus. The real sinners are those who know God but love only themselves or their illusions. The killing of Robert Lagave brings with it a moment of shocked awareness that soon fades: Paula weeps...
SOUND OF A DISTANT HORN, by Sven Stolpe (301 pp.; Sheed & Ward; $3.95), is within echoing distance of the works of François Mauriac and Graham Greene, in which anguished would-believers are pursued by both hell and heaven. Swedish Novelist Sven-Stolpe, 51, a Roman Catholic convert, tells of Edvard Kansdorf, an expatriate middle-aged Swede dying of cancer in Paris. He is a relapsed convert to Catholicism who tries to drown his consciousness as well as his conscience in cognac. The nausea rather than the pain of living makes him almost yearn for death. Around him revolve...