From 1920 date Mauriac's most productive years as a novelist, his novels including Le Baiser au lépreux (1922 A Kiss for the Leper), Genitrix (1923 Genitrix), Le Désert de l'amour (1925 The Desert of Love), and Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927 Thérèse ).Ībout 1928 came a religious crisis in Mauriac's life, with a corresponding change of emphasis in his works. He published his first volume of poems in 1909 more poetry and two novels followed before he was mobilized as an army medical orderly in 1914. Educated at a Catholic school and at Bordeaux University, Mauriac moved to Paris in 1906, determined to become a writer. He lost his father in infancy, but the influence of his mother, a stern and puritanical Catholic, pervades his literary works. 11, 1885, of a prosperous middle-class family. The French author François Mauriac (1885-1970), a fervent Catholic, is best known for his novels, usually set in Bordeaux or the Landes district of southwestern France, with their central themes of faith, sin, and divine grace.įrançois Mauriac was born in Bordeaux on Nov.
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