François Mauriac (1885–1970)
Author of The Knot of Vipers
About the Author
François Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France on October 11, 1885. He was a novelist, essayist, poet, and playwright. He studied at the University of Bordeaux and the École Nationale des Chartes at Paris before leaving to focus on writing. His first published work, a volume of poems entitled show more Joined Hands, was published in 1909. He was better known as a novelist. His novels include Young Man in Chains, The Stuff of Youth, The Kiss to the Leper, The Desert of Love, Vipers' Tangle, The Frontenac Mystery, The Unknown Sea, and A Woman of the Pharisees. His plays include Asmodée and The Poorly Loved. Mauriac resisted the Nazi invaders and the Vichy regime consistently and courageously during World War II. He was elected to the French Academy in 1933 and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952. He died on September 1, 1970. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by François Mauriac
Mauriac : Oeuvres romanesques et theatrales completes, tome 1 (French Edition) (1978) — Author — 15 copies
les chefs-d'oeuvre de François Mauriac - tome 1 - la robe prétexte, le baiser au Lépreux, le… (1970) 9 copies
The inner presence; recollections of my spiritual life: Nouveaux memoires interieurs (1968) 7 copies
Trois Récits: Un homme de lettres (1926) - Coups de Couteau (1926) - Le démon de la connaissance (1928) (1931) 7 copies
LES CHEFS D OEUVRE DE FRANCOIS MAURIAC, Tome II (Génitrix, Destins, Le Désert de l'Amour) (1966) 6 copies
Ussipesa [romaan] II 5 copies
T.IV. Les chefs d'oeuvre de François Mauriac / Ce qui était perdu / Le nœud de vipères / (1970) 4 copies
T.VIII. Les chefs d'oeuvre de François Mauriac / L'enfant chargé de chaines / Commencement d'une vie / Bordeaux ou… (1970) 4 copies
T.IX. Les chefs d'oeuvre de François Mauriac / Dieu et Mammon / Souffrances et Bonheur du Chrétien / La Vie et la… (1958) 4 copies
Der Dämon der Erkenntnis — Author — 3 copies
Mémoires politiques 3 copies
Beránek 3 copies
T XII. Les chefs d’œuvres de François Mauriac: / Journal IV. terres franciscaines / Journal V / 3 copies
Paroles catholiques 2 copies
Nobel Prize Library Published Under the Sponsorship of the Nobel Foundation & the Swedish Academy, Mauriac, Mistral,… (1971) 2 copies
La sed del alma 2 copies
De Pascal a Graham Greene 2 copies
L'adieu a l'adolescence : poeme 2 copies
Romány lásky a nenávisti 2 copies
La robe pretexte: roman 2 copies
Escritos intimos 2 copies
The Living Thoughts of Pascal 2 copies
Blaise Pascal et sa sœur Jacqueline 2 copies
Byttingen 2 copies
Steekspel : een novelle 2 copies
Greta Garbo 2 copies
What I believe 2 copies
El misterio Frontenac 2 copies
Minnen 2 copies
Umouněnec 2 copies
Øglereden 1 copy
Ingerii negri 1 copy
Ussipesa. romaan / 2. osa 1 copy
Ἡ ἐρημιά τοῦ ἔρωτα 1 copy
Supplément au Traité de la concupiscence de Bossuet. Cuivres et bois originaux d'Édouard Wiralt 1 copy
Příběhy lásky a nenávisti 1 copy
Människosonen 1 copy
Langenud inglid 1 copy
¿uvres romanesques 1 copy
Passage du malin 1 copy
Un adolescent d'autrefois 1 copy
Oeuvres complètes 1 copy
Mor og søn 1 copy
Pages Choisies 1 copy
Therese At The Hotel 1 copy
Therese And The Doctor 1 copy
Le fils de l'homme 1 copy
Au Confin de la Medecine 1 copy
La chair et le sang 1 copy
Mot havet 1 copy
Jean Racine 1 copy
Oeuvres Romasesques 1 copy
Questi nostri figli 1 copy
Obras completas : novelas 1 copy
Thérèse D 1 copy
Le mal : roman 1 copy
Ce que je crois 1 copy
Pages choisies 1 copy
L'education des filles. — Author — 1 copy
L'agneau 1 copy
Le drôle 1 copy
Nouveaux mémoires intérieurs 1 copy
Opere 1 copy
Losy 1 copy
Jagnię 1 copy
Little Misery 1 copy
Orages 1 copy
Préséances 1 copy
Del romanzo 1 copy
Le roman 1 copy
Le Noeud De Viperes 1 copy
Ce qui etait perdu: roman 1 copy
Therese Desqueyroux 1 copy
Le mystere frontenac 1 copy
Plongées 1 copy
Le baiser au lepreux: roman 1 copy
Le noeud de vipères: roman 1 copy
Myrkyttäjä 1 copy
L'agneau: roman 1 copy
Le désert de l'amour: roman 1 copy
The lamb (L'agneau) 1 copy
Le n�ud de vip�eres; roman 1 copy
Du côté de chez Proust 1 copy
Η γεννήτρα 1 copy
The stumbling block 1 copy
Pellegrini a Lourdes 1 copy
Le nouveau bloc-notes 1 copy
En julhistoria 1 copy
Klubko zmijí 1 copy
Mozart 1 copy
Karitsa 1 copy
La vie de Jean Racine 1 copy
Life of Jesus 1 copy
Dor e Alegria do Cristão 1 copy
La realtà dell'amore 1 copy
El pan vino 1 copy
Associated Works
Harvest of Hate: The Nazi Program for the Destruction of the Jews of Europe (1951) — Foreword, some editions — 113 copies
Qué es la literatura — Contributor — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Mauriac, François
- Legal name
- Mauriac, François Charles
- Other names
- MAURIAC, François
MAURIAC, François Charles - Birthdate
- 1885-10-11
- Date of death
- 1970-09-01
- Burial location
- Cimetière de Vemars, Val d'Oise, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Bordeaux, France
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
- Education
- University of Bordeaux (Licence, 1905)
Ecole des Chartes - Occupations
- novelist
poet
playwright
critic
journalist - Relationships
- Mauriac, Claude (son)
Wiazemsky, Anne (granddaughter) - Organizations
- Académie française (1933)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1958) - Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize (Literature ∙ 1952)
Grand Cross of the Légion d'Honneur (1958)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1958)
Académie française (1933)
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française (1926)
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Reviews
Woman of the Pharisees
self-righteous austerity
As with several recent novels I've taken on, started out quite slow but I warmed to it much more as it went on. The dark, abrupt opening starts things off on a right keel but my favourite sections came when Thérèse was finally reunited with Bernard and things become quite desperate. A portrait of a woman suffocated by provincial life, by ennui, by social custom, by her own inability to find herself in her cramped surroundings and ultimately (at least by insinuation) by her inability to realise her own sexuality apart from through her quite abstract and elusive fantasy life. Her bovarysme doesn't even let her taste the same temporary joys as Emma did, and though she ultimately gets "freedom" of a sort here it's one which promises not a great deal more than her previous confinement.… (more)
Reason Read: tbr takedown, Reading 1001, May 2023
"Vipers' Tangle begins as a man's letter to his estranged wife, explaining his hatred for her and their children, and is transformed under Mauriac's masterful pen into a diary of spiritual and psychological battles against God, family, and self. With remarkable subtlety and sensitivity, Mauriac relates the transformation of the protagonist by the sublime workings of grace. Vipers' Tangle's superb arc and unflinching examination of the human heart makes it easily one of the greatest novels - Catholic or otherwise - of all time."
François Mauriac, who was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Written as a journal, it is a marital drama of a man who hates his wife and children and spends his time trying to make sure they get nothing from him. It is a novel about transformation. It is also about how we misunderstand others. For a short novel there is a lot here.… (more)
"Vipers' Tangle begins as a man's letter to his estranged wife, explaining his hatred for her and their children, and is transformed under Mauriac's masterful pen into a diary of spiritual and psychological battles against God, family, and self. With remarkable subtlety and sensitivity, Mauriac relates the transformation of the protagonist by the sublime workings of grace. Vipers' Tangle's superb arc and unflinching examination of the human heart makes it easily one of the greatest novels - Catholic or otherwise - of all time."
François Mauriac, who was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Written as a journal, it is a marital drama of a man who hates his wife and children and spends his time trying to make sure they get nothing from him. It is a novel about transformation. It is also about how we misunderstand others. For a short novel there is a lot here.… (more)
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