[Le nœud de vipéres]
Year:
1932
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Cluny Media
Year of publication:
2018
Pages:
220
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
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The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
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 possessiveness, envy, suspicion, and vengefulness, but this powerful story is not without the touch of God's mercy.
Chronicling a Bordeaux family between the Dreyfus affair and the Wall Street crash, Viper's Tangle offers all the twists and surprises of a true novel. Satire and poetry miraculously coexist. This is Mauriac's masterpiece, and one of the great novels of the 20th century.
Author: François Beauclair, France
Update on: Apr 2024