<div>The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac. </div>

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Proust's Way

<div>The Nobel Prize&ndash;winning author of Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Desqueyroux shares fascinating insights through correspondence with Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, and others. Best known as France&rsquo;s great Catholic novelist, Fran&ccedil;ois Mauriac was also a playwright, poet, critic, journalist, and member of the Acad&eacute;mie Fran&ccedil;aise. He was an influential public intellectual who criticized the Catholic church for supporting Francisco Franco and opposed French rule in Vietnam. As a columnist for Le Figaro, Mauriac engaged in a famous dispute with Albert Camus about the course of France after its liberation from Nazi occupation. In this collection of letters, Mauriac delves into a variety of topics&mdash;from the death of Georges Bernanos to the correspondence between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide, and the Routier youth movement&mdash;in exchanges with fellow authors, artists, and intellectuals, as well as the readers of his various articles and columns.</div>

Letters on Art and Literature

<div>The Nobel Prize&ndash;winning author&rsquo;s stirring biography of the thirteenth-century Italian penitent who become the patron saint of the homeless. Born in 1247 to a farming family in a small village outside Perugia, Margaret of Cortona was willful and reckless in her youth. At age seventeen, she became a wealthy man&rsquo;s mistress&mdash;even bearing his son out of wedlock. But her life of sin ended when she found her lover murdered. Devoting herself to prayer and penance, Margaret eventually joined the Third Order of St. Francis and took a vow of poverty. She established a hospital for the poor and homeless at Cortona. On divine command, she challenged her own bishop for his lavish and warlike lifestyle. Canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1728, she became a patron saint of the downtrodden, including the falsely accused, homeless, orphaned, and mentally ill, as well as midwives, penitents, single mothers, reformed prostitutes, and third children. For Fran&ccedil;ois Mauriac, Saint Margaret of Cortona became a source of fascination and solace during the Nazi occupation of France. During that time, feeling himself and all his countrymen to be among the downtrodden, he wrote this biography.</div>

Saint Margaret of Cortona

<div>Three great nonfiction works from the Nobel Prize&ndash;winning, Catholic, French author of Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Desqueyroux.Saint Margaret of CortonaFor Fran&ccedil;ois Mauriac, Saint Margaret of Cortona became a source of fascination and solace during the Nazi occupation of France. During that time, feeling himself and all his countrymen to be among the downtrodden, he wrote this biography of the thirteenth-century Italian penitent who would become the patron saint of the homeless . . .Born in 1247 to a farming family in a small village outside Perugia, Margaret of Cortona was willful and reckless in her youth. At age seventeen, she became a wealthy man&rsquo;s mistress&mdash;even bearing his son out of wedlock. But her life of sin ended when she found her lover murdered.Devoting herself to prayer and penance, Margaret eventually joined the Third Order of St. Francis and took a vow of poverty. She established a hospital for the poor and homeless at Cortona. On divine command, she challenged her own bishop for his lavish and warlike lifestyle. Canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1728, she became a patron saint of the downtrodden, including the falsely accused, homeless, orphaned, and mentally ill, as well as midwives, penitents, single mothers, reformed prostitutes, and third children.Letters on Art and LiteratureIn this collection of letters, Mauriacshares fascinating insights through correspondence with Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, and other authors, artists, intellectuals, as well as the readers of his various articles and columns. The letters delve into a variety of topics&mdash;from the death of Georges Bernanos to the correspondence between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide, and the Routier youth movement.Proust&rsquo;s Way The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac.</div>

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