...Alexander Fischler Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 THEMATIC KEYS IN FRANCOIS MAURIAC’S THERESE DESQUEYROUX AND LE NGWD DE VIPERES By ALEXANDEKFISCHLEK Though the polemic and autobiographical writings...

..., and their goal is cognitive modification. That this combination is by no means unique in recent French letters is indicated by such varied examples as Alain Robbe-Grillet,Claude Mauriac, and P hilippe Sollers. Sartre, a sometime novelist who has abjured his former bourgeois magic in favor...

... of language, and he forestalls possible objections by referring the reader to favorable critics (p. 280). On the other hand, this reviewer read with surprise the judgment (p. 102) that each novel by Mauriac monotonously ends with the granting of grace to the characters. With the exception of Lc...

... that occasionally all of them allow “the idea” to dominate over the free imaginative process. She remarks of Aragon that he “sees the upper classes as individuals, the working class as a group” (p. 238). Bernanos and Mauriac engaged actively in political controversy, but as jour- nalists, not allowing...

... it is not always easy to determine whether he has included a given item). Among these omissions are A. G. Engstrom, “Flaubert’s Correspondence and the Ironic and Symbolic Structure of Madame Bovary,” Studies in Philology, XLVI (lPQ9), 479-95; the appropriate parts of Francois Mauriac, Mes Grands Hommes...

....27 As Claude Mauriac has pointed out in a reply to Roger Martin du Gard’s and Pierre Herbart’s indictment of Gide’s cruel isolation, “the unavowable, being avowed, loses much of its unpleasantness.”28 Each facet of his thought that Andri Gide allows us to see contributes in a remarkable...

... in National, Epochal and In- dividual Style. A dissertation. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures, XLVI, 1953. Pp. xix + 139. Hemmings, F. W. J. Emile Zola. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1953. Pp. 308. $6.00. Mauriac...

..., Claudel, Valiry, Colette, Girau- doux, Roger Martin du Gard, Mauriac, Duhamel, Jules Romains, Montherlant, Green, Malraux, Saint Exupdry. There are more, such as Maurres, Bernanos, Mine, Giono, who will be treated in a forth- coming volume. Our space being strictly limited we can only...

..., Language and Literature, No. 17, 1947. Pp. xi + 210. $3.00. Pell, Elsie. Franqois Mauriac: In Search of the Infinite. New York: The Philosophical Library, 1947. Pp. 93. $2.75. Wade, Ira 0. Studies on Voltaire with Some Unpublished Papers of Mme du Chitelet. Princeton: Princeton...

... younger than himself and unfortunately drew a line after Claudel, Gide, Proust, Maurois, and Mauriac. He seldom indulged in the dis- cussion of technique and style. With all these limitations, however, Du Bos strikes us today as the deepest and often the most subtle literary sensibility...

... Carco, even if he is a little more lenient to him than, in our opinion, posterity will be. The very special world, or underworld, depicte9 by Carco is, in itself, just as inter- esting as that of Proust or that of Mauriac’s provincial and frustrated charac- ters. From Moll Flanders...

...James H. Justus Cleanth Brooks. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963. Pp. xiv + 500. $8.50. Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 JAMES H. JUSTUS 23 1 (Proust, Mauriac, Valkry, Thomas Mann, Kafka, Svevo, Joyce...

... for it recognized in one way or another that, as Maritain put it, the poet of Geneva had been “religiously gifted.” Mauriac went even as far as to loolc upon him as the defender of the supernatural in the eighteenth century (p. 96). An article of Jean Cocteau not mentioned in 1’Etat prksent, in R. P. (Dec...

..., and without necessarily attributing to them a metaphysical significance. The climate is of course a iiiirror of and a factor in the psychology; in this I eyiect lEernanos resembles Mauriac, Faulkner, and many other no\ elists \Lrong on atmosphere and mood. But the intensity of the p)cliological...

... to a decidedly cultivated public, although he does not include many authors mentioned by Mr. Baldensperger. The figures treated are Gide, Claudel, Valiry, Colette, Girau- doux, Roger Martin du Gard, Mauriac, Duhamel, Jules Romains, Montherlant, Green, Malraux, Saint Exupdry. There are more...

... himself testifies. On the other hand, he argues stoutly, the while invoking sound scriptural evidence, that the last three writers named, together with Cassou, Char, Chamson, Eluard, Mauriac, Sartre, Vercors, Georges Adam, Pierre Bost, Max-Pol Fouchet, Loys Masson, Robert Morel, Edith...

..... . but with innumerable possibilities for ‘becoming.’ ” Relationships between Sartre and other novelists, incidentally, are pointed out in the discussions of Jules Romains, Mauriac, Giraudoux, and CCline. The French novel of the interwar years is seen as developing in two directions -“backward...

.... ROMANCELANGUAGES Bello, Andres. Obras Completas, Vol. IX : Temas de Critica Literaria. Caracas : Ediciones del Ministerio de Educacion, Direcci6n de Cultura y Bellas Artes, 1956. Pp. Iv + 784. Clarke, Isabelle H. (editor). Le Dr;le, by Francois Mauriac. Illustrated by Madeleine...

... revealing insights on narrative strategies from Cervantes through Francois Mauriac. Finally, Olga Bernal's Langage et fiction dans le roman de Beckett (1969) comes close to certain preoccupations of Kern. To end on the positive note which Existential Thought and Fictional Technique deserves, one...

... talent emerged from them. The advocates of those movements may have believed, and loudly asserted, that the wave of the future was with and for them, but men who swam against that wave, or ignored it JAMES H. JUSTUS 23 1 (Proust, Mauriac...