The Unknown Sea: (Les Chemins De La Mer)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the suffocating atmosphere of provincial Bordeaux, François Mauriac's The Unknown Sea charts the moral and spiritual disintegration of a bourgeois family consumed by greed, guilt, and the corrosive weight of inherited sin. Originally published in French as Les Chemins de la Mer (1939) and translated into English by Gerard Hopkins, the novel chronicles the Révolou family's desperate struggle to preserve their social standing after financial ruin, unravelling the hypocrisy and hidden passions that simmer beneath a veneer of respectability. At its heart is a story of inheritance — not merely of money, but of moral corruption — as characters are forced to confront the consequences of their choices against a backdrop of a society rigidly defined by class and Catholic doctrine. Mauriac, a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (1952), brings his characteristic psychological precision and austere prose to bear on themes of redemption, grace, and the near-impossibility of human goodness in a fallen world. His writing illuminates the darkest recesses of the human soul with the cool, unsparing gaze of a confessor, drawing comparisons to both Balzac and Graham Greene. The Unknown Sea stands as a testament to Mauriac's enduring belief that the sacred and the profane are forever entangled — leaving the reader to wonder whether any of his characters can truly find their way to shore.
Author: François Mauriac
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the suffocating atmosphere of provincial Bordeaux, François Mauriac's The Unknown Sea charts the moral and spiritual disintegration of a bourgeois family consumed by greed, guilt, and the corrosive weight of inherited sin. Originally published in French as Les Chemins de la Mer (1939) and translated into English by Gerard Hopkins, the novel chronicles the Révolou family's desperate struggle to preserve their social standing after financial ruin, unravelling the hypocrisy and hidden passions that simmer beneath a veneer of respectability. At its heart is a story of inheritance — not merely of money, but of moral corruption — as characters are forced to confront the consequences of their choices against a backdrop of a society rigidly defined by class and Catholic doctrine. Mauriac, a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (1952), brings his characteristic psychological precision and austere prose to bear on themes of redemption, grace, and the near-impossibility of human goodness in a fallen world. His writing illuminates the darkest recesses of the human soul with the cool, unsparing gaze of a confessor, drawing comparisons to both Balzac and Graham Greene. The Unknown Sea stands as a testament to Mauriac's enduring belief that the sacred and the profane are forever entangled — leaving the reader to wonder whether any of his characters can truly find their way to shore.