Flesh And Blood: (La Chair Et Le Sang)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Chipped, torn with minor damage. The title page appears clean and intact. Pages: good. Binding appears firm and intact with light stains on edges from shelf use.
A landmark work of French Catholic literature, Flesh and Blood (La Chair et le Sang) by Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac is a brooding, morally charged novel set against the sun-scorched vineyards of southwestern France. The narrative chronicles the tortured inner life of Claude Favereau, a young man of humble origins thrust into the world of a wealthy bourgeois family, where desire, class conflict, and spiritual anguish collide with devastating force. Mauriac writes with a surgeon's precision, laying bare the hypocrisies of provincial French society while interrogating the uneasy tension between carnal temptation and the longing for grace. The novel stands as a compelling early statement of the themes that would define Mauriac's career — sin, redemption, and the relentless pull of the flesh against the demands of the soul. Translated here by Gerard Hopkins, this English edition makes one of Mauriac's most passionate and psychologically penetrating works accessible to a wider audience.
Author: François Mauriac
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Eyre & Spottiswoode
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Chipped, torn with minor damage. The title page appears clean and intact. Pages: good. Binding appears firm and intact with light stains on edges from shelf use.
A landmark work of French Catholic literature, Flesh and Blood (La Chair et le Sang) by Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac is a brooding, morally charged novel set against the sun-scorched vineyards of southwestern France. The narrative chronicles the tortured inner life of Claude Favereau, a young man of humble origins thrust into the world of a wealthy bourgeois family, where desire, class conflict, and spiritual anguish collide with devastating force. Mauriac writes with a surgeon's precision, laying bare the hypocrisies of provincial French society while interrogating the uneasy tension between carnal temptation and the longing for grace. The novel stands as a compelling early statement of the themes that would define Mauriac's career — sin, redemption, and the relentless pull of the flesh against the demands of the soul. Translated here by Gerard Hopkins, this English edition makes one of Mauriac's most passionate and psychologically penetrating works accessible to a wider audience.