The Desert of Love
by François Mauriac
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Maria Cross becomes the object of the fascination of both a respected doctor and his son.Tags
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La pasión amorosa, auténtico motor de gran parte de la mejor literatura, aparece en El desierto del amor como objeto de análisis en sus aspectos más oscuros. A partir de Maria Cross, la protagonista de esta novela que atraviesa un sinfín de miserias morales, Mauriac analiza los conflictos que habitan en el interior de los humanos, su lucha constante contra el mal, desde una particular entonación romántica.
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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 Joined Hands, was published in 1909. He was better show more 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
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Loomingu Raamatukogu 1970 (40-41)
Nobelpreisträger Coron-Verlag (weiß) (1952 (Frankreich))
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Le désert de l'amour; Le desert de l’amour
- Original publication date
- 1936; 1925 (The Desert of Love) (The Desert of Love); 1935 (The Enemy) (The Enemy)
- People/Characters*
- Gabriël Gradère
- Important places*
- Bordeaux, Nieuw-Aquitanië, Frankrijk
- First words
- (DESERT OF LOVE) For years Raymond Courreges had been cherishing the hope that one day he might run across Maria Cross, the woman on whom he had so ardently longed to be revenged.
(THE ENEMY) It was the habit of Madame... (show all) Dezaymeries to get up at daybreak and, after Mass, to waken Fabien with a kiss. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)(DESERT OF LOVE) Hungrily he fixed his eyes on the young man who had asked them; the man who was so different from himself, and yet so like him - the part of his own flesh and blood that would survive him for a few more years, but that he was fated never to see again.
(THE ENEMY) It is the mark of our slavery and of our wretchedness that we can, without lying, paint a faithful portrait only of the passions. - Original language
- French
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