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François Mauriac

Born

in Bordeaux, France

October 11, 1885

Died

September 01, 1970

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Blaise Pascal, Maurice Barrès, Racine, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Baudelai ...more

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François Charles Mauriac was a French writer and a member of the Académie française. He was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life." Mauriac is acknowledged to be one of the greatest Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century. ...more

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Average rating: 4.37 · 1,255,972 ratings · 37,472 reviews · 465 distinct works • Similar authors

	Thérèse Desqueyroux 3.68 avg rating — 4,728 ratings — published 1927 — 185 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vipers' Tangle 4.06 avg rating — 3,518 ratings — published 1932 — 165 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thérèse by François Mauriac, Gerard Hopkins (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 906 ratings — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Desert of Love 3.60 avg rating — 767 ratings — published 1925 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Sagouin 3.48 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 1951 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Génitrix 3.45 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 1923 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Baiser au lépreux 3.67 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 1922 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman of the Pharisees by François Mauriac, Gerard Hopkins (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1941 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Frontenac Mystery by François Mauriac, Gerard Hopkins (Translator) 3.52 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1933 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Fin de la nuit 3.66 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1935 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

tags: books, literacy, reading

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“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
― Francois Mauriac

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“ ‘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.”
― François Mauriac

tags: re-read, read, reread, true, who

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