Viper's tangle
An old miser who wants to take revenge on his family by disinheriting them, Louis justifies himself in a sort of confession to his wife: one sees the damage wrought on him and his family by means of his...
MAURIAC, François
The Desert of Love
Passionate love is often the real motor of a lot of the finest literature. In this work by Francois Mauriac (Burdeos, 1885-Paris, 1970), his most complex and darker aspects appear. The writer recreates the...
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Mauriac was awarded the Nobel in 1952. His Thérése Desqueyroux is considered one of the best French novels of the 20th Century. It is the life of Thérèse, from a well-to-do family, well educated. She...