François Mauriac

Birth: 1885-10-11 , Bordéus

Death: 1970-09-01 , Paris

François Mauriac was a French novelist, playwright, essayist, and journalist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952. His work is known for portraying life in Gascony, his homeland, exploring themes such as sin, faith, guilt, and redemption. He is often associated with Christian existentialism, and his writing is marked by deep psychological analysis and lyrical, poignant prose.

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1952

Nobel de Literatura

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually to authors who have produced outstanding works in the field of literature, with an ideal geared towards humanity.

Poems List

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man’s ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

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François Mauriac (1885-1970) was one of the most important French writers of the 20th century. Born in Bordeaux, he grew up in a devout Catholic family, which profoundly influenced his worldview and literary work. After studying literature in Paris, he began his writing career, publishing novels such as 'The Prodigal Son' (1913) and 'Thérèse Desqueyroux' (1927), which brought him international recognition. His novels often explore the complexities of the human soul, the conflicts between good and evil, and the search for meaning in a world marked by war and uncertainty. Mauriac was also an influential social and political critic, using his column in the newspaper 'Le Figaro' to comment on the events of his time. His literature, although rooted in a religious and regional context, transcends borders, offering a universal vision of the human condition.