The Kiss to the Leper edition by François Mauriac Walter Ballenberger Literature Fiction eBooks
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François Mauriac is a very famous French author. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as the Grand Cross of the French Légion d'Honneur, and he was a Member of the Académie Française, a highly prestigious appointment.
Mauriac published this book in 1922 when he was 37 years old. The title in French is Le Baiser au lépreux. This was not Mauriac’s first novel, but it brought him his first serious critical success. Mauriac himself grew up in the Bordeaux area, which is also the setting for this novel, and he certainly knew a great deal about the local people and their customs.
Written almost a century ago, this book is certainly a “time period” piece. The culture then and there was naturally far different from what we know today. Local transportation was almost exclusively done by horse-drawn carriages or by train. Arranged marriages were not uncommon, especially in families with large landholdings, with the goal of either enlarging those holdings or of keeping the properties within the family in the future. The local church played a much more central role in the lives of people than is the case today. Although many arranged marriages at that time probably were successful, they obviously have the potential to be seriously flawed. Mauriac took advantage of that fact to explore through his characters the emotions he wished to portray in both this novel and another of his famous works published about five years later, Thérèse Desqueyroux. A new film based on the latter work was released in France at the end of 2012, and it should start playing in U.S. theaters shortly after these words are being written.
That being said, the author explores very basic human emotions that anyone today can recognize. In fact the book was considered a bit scandalous by some when it was published for so openly dealing with sexual feelings and desires.
The Kiss to the Leper edition by François Mauriac Walter Ballenberger Literature Fiction eBooks
Francois Mauriac may not be known to many contemporary readers and that is an inadequacy that this novella should rectify. This not the France of cheap emotions, lurid and inevitably boring sex, sad over-worked cliches. This not existential posturing and puerile aetheism. This is about love.Mauriac has been given the tag of being a "Catholic writer" which seems to be a method of disparaging and parochializing a writer who addresses profound philosophical questions.
The protagonist, Jean Peloueyre, the physically deformed son of the area"s most respected and wealthiest family is betrothed to a local beauty whose distinguished family has fallen on hard times (don't you dare start yawning ) What happens to this couple would sound trite if I were to synopsize it, but the passion and love that overcomes repugnance between these two is intense on a physical, emotional religious and physical level. I said no posturing and I meant it because the writer takes on Nietzsche and most of modern philosophy. Consider that this written before the advent of the 1920's seems so timely today, it is unfair to call it dated.
In a brief 67 pages, well translated I assume, Mr. Mauriac has woven us a tale about love and belief. Although it is a novella, I would compare it in its effect on the reader to Graham Greene's "A Burnt Out Case" elevated several degrees. I find the plight of Jean and his young wife Noemi, discussed in such great depth on all levels that I am surprised it has not been in print. For this my profound thanks to Mr. Walter Ballenberger.
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The Kiss to the Leper edition by François Mauriac Walter Ballenberger Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Mauriac is one of the great French novelists of the 20th century. This short novel, which is highly readable, is set, like most of his fiction, among the bourgeois of Normandy--a proud, stiff people, apparently, whose virtues are almost as bad as their vices.
The Kiss to the Leper is a book about sacrificial love. It's a book that should change you. That's really all you need to know before you pick it up
Francois Mauriac may not be known to many contemporary readers and that is an inadequacy that this novella should rectify. This not the France of cheap emotions, lurid and inevitably boring sex, sad over-worked cliches. This not existential posturing and puerile aetheism. This is about love.
Mauriac has been given the tag of being a "Catholic writer" which seems to be a method of disparaging and parochializing a writer who addresses profound philosophical questions.
The protagonist, Jean Peloueyre, the physically deformed son of the area"s most respected and wealthiest family is betrothed to a local beauty whose distinguished family has fallen on hard times (don't you dare start yawning ) What happens to this couple would sound trite if I were to synopsize it, but the passion and love that overcomes repugnance between these two is intense on a physical, emotional religious and physical level. I said no posturing and I meant it because the writer takes on Nietzsche and most of modern philosophy. Consider that this written before the advent of the 1920's seems so timely today, it is unfair to call it dated.
In a brief 67 pages, well translated I assume, Mr. Mauriac has woven us a tale about love and belief. Although it is a novella, I would compare it in its effect on the reader to Graham Greene's "A Burnt Out Case" elevated several degrees. I find the plight of Jean and his young wife Noemi, discussed in such great depth on all levels that I am surprised it has not been in print. For this my profound thanks to Mr. Walter Ballenberger.
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