God and Mammon and What Was Lost
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- £35.99
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- £35.99
Publisher Description
Fran_ois Mauriac, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in literature, is one of the most prominent Catholic novelists of the modern era, yet in the English speaking world he is known primarily for only one novel, 1927's ThZr_se Desqueyroux. In this new translation of two other seminal works by Mauriac, the 1930 novel What Was Lost and its theoretical basis, the 1929 essay God and Mammon, Raymond N. MacKenzie re-introduces Mauriac to the English speaking world. Featuring a scholarly introduction by MacKenzie that provides background on Mauriac's religious and artistic struggles, this new edition will delight scholars of Mauriac as well as contemporary readers previously unfamiliar with his work.
Customer Reviews
What was lost
A superb book. In a life of reading, I’ve never found any novel so concentrated in the mind. Mauriac makes only the amount of effort to create physical situations that it takes to make a convenient framework for the mental process. His treatment of the Catholicism that so consumes his life and desire to write is so finely and subtly depicted, his clear description of the themes of personal relations and sexuality, never once mentioning any physical occurrence , never once naming any name, could not be more beautifully worked. I would put him right at the top of the novelists art.
God and Mammon
In contrast to the above novel, this book is a personal interrogation in great detail.
I personally wish it had been a novel. Mauriac finds it much harder to depict himself and the art of the catholic writer in this question/statement/apology than he does to draw exquisite pictures of the characters of his creation. This work therefore becomes somewhat indulgent and laborious. That is of course my own impression.