Maltaverne: Un Adolescent D'Autrefois
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the twilight of a vanished France, a young man caught between the sacred and the profane finds himself adrift in the amber light of a Bordelais childhood that can never be reclaimed. Maltaverne — subtitled Un adolescent d'autrefois — is François Mauriac's final novel, a deeply autobiographical work that chronicles the inner torment of Alain Gajac, a sensitive adolescent torn between spiritual yearning, bourgeois obligation, and the first devastating tremors of love. Set against the lush, melancholic landscape of the Landes region in southwestern France, the novel captures a world on the cusp of irreversible change, rendered with the aching precision that only Mauriac could command. The novel stands as a valediction — a Nobel laureate's last reckoning with the themes that defined his entire literary career: sin, grace, the suffocating weight of Catholic guilt, and the desperate human hunger for transcendence. Mauriac's prose, translated here with elegant fidelity by Jean Stewart, moves with the quiet authority of a writer who has spent a lifetime mapping the secret chambers of the human soul. What begins as a portrait of adolescent longing resolves into something far more unsettling — a meditation on whether innocence, once lost, can ever truly be mourned.
Author: François Mauriac
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the twilight of a vanished France, a young man caught between the sacred and the profane finds himself adrift in the amber light of a Bordelais childhood that can never be reclaimed. Maltaverne — subtitled Un adolescent d'autrefois — is François Mauriac's final novel, a deeply autobiographical work that chronicles the inner torment of Alain Gajac, a sensitive adolescent torn between spiritual yearning, bourgeois obligation, and the first devastating tremors of love. Set against the lush, melancholic landscape of the Landes region in southwestern France, the novel captures a world on the cusp of irreversible change, rendered with the aching precision that only Mauriac could command. The novel stands as a valediction — a Nobel laureate's last reckoning with the themes that defined his entire literary career: sin, grace, the suffocating weight of Catholic guilt, and the desperate human hunger for transcendence. Mauriac's prose, translated here with elegant fidelity by Jean Stewart, moves with the quiet authority of a writer who has spent a lifetime mapping the secret chambers of the human soul. What begins as a portrait of adolescent longing resolves into something far more unsettling — a meditation on whether innocence, once lost, can ever truly be mourned.