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François Mauriac's masterpiece and one of the greatest Catholic novels, Thérèse Desqueyroux is the haunting story of an unhappily married young woman whose desperation drives her to thoughts of murder. Mauriac paints an unforgettable portrait of spiritual isolation and despair, but he also dramatizes the complex realities of forgiveness, grace, and redemption. Set in the countryside outside Bordeaux, in a region of overwhelming heat and sudden storms, the novel's landscape reflects the inner world of Thérèse, a figure who has captured the imaginations of readers for generations.
Raymond N. MacKenzie's translation of Thérèse Desqueyroux, the first since 1947, captures the poetic lyricism of Mauriac's prose as well as the intensity of his stream-of-consciousness narrative. MacKenzie also provides notes and a biographical and interpretive introduction to help readers better appreciate the mastery of François Mauriac, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952. This volume also includes a translation of "Conscience, The Divine Instinct," Mauriac's first draft of the story, never before available in English.
- Sales Rank: #336150 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Sheed n Ward
- Published on: 2005-03-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.92" h x .53" w x 6.28" l, .51 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 156 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
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Aimed at the American English ear, MacKenzie's syntax restores the Jazz Age punch of Mauriac's original. Thanks to MacKenzie's introduction, notes, and translated first draft of Mauriac's text ('Conscience'), Therese's sexuality is also restored, making her once again an ambivalent 'new woman' [la garçonne] of the 1920s and a scandalous protagonist for a 'Catholic novel.' As a result, the interwar 'Catholic revival' [renouveau catholique] also recovers its punch with Mauriac's challenge to bourgeois Catholicism. With new eyes and ears, another generation of readers can now wade with Therese Desqueyroux into 'the human river.' (Stephen Schloesser, author of Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933)
An invaluable volume for those exploring Mauriac or his place in the French Catholic renaissance. MacKenzie's fresh, highly readable translation of Mauraic's disturbing masterpiece includes translator's notes and an excellent introduction. His inclusion of Mauriac's first draft permits rare insights into the startling evolution of the eponymous heroine. (William Bush, Professor Emeritus of French Literature at the University of Western Ontario, Canada)
It is safe to say that Francois Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux has achieved the most coveted form of 'immortality' that any writer could hope for: inclusion on countless university and secondary school reading lists for both courses and exams. Only a few French novels share this distinction. Thus, Professor MacKenzie's excellent translation is well timed, for Thérèse, a great novel by any criterion, will be read by many throughout the rest of the new century. The Gerard Hopkins translation, competent and reliable in its day, nonetheless shows signs of wear. The English language, particularly in North America, has evolved considerably in the intervening three quarters of a century since its publication, and a fresh new translation in today's idiom is most welcome. This bright new translation is a valuable addition to Mauriac studies, and will add to the luster of Mauriac's reputation in the English-speaking world. Thanks to Professor MacKenzie, a new generation of readers in the English-speaking world will be able to have a direct, lively and utterly reliable interaction with Mauriac 's great novel. (David O'Connell, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Georgia State University)
About the Author
Raymond N. MacKenzie is professor of English at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A Feminist Psychological Novel
By Foster J. Dickson
This 1992 novel by Nobel Laureate Francois Mauriac seemed to me to be one of the earliest feminist novels not written by a woman. Mauriac's protagonist, Therese, is a very intelligent, reasonably well-educated, independent woman who marries on a whim and suffers for it, making everyone around her suffer as well. Her simpleton husband tries nearly everything to make her be an obedient wife, but nothing works. Although Mauriac is often regarded as a Catholic novelist, this protagonist is in no way a conservative model for early twentieth century wives. Therese is the anti-hero who never yields.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Classic Novel
By JulianneMcCullagh, author THE NARROW GATE
Therese Desqueyroux François Mauriac
Therese Desqueyroux is referred to as a Catholic novel, not because it shows the Church in a favorable light, not because it illustrates the life of a saint in the making, rather, it is a portrayal of a woman, and her family, lacking the virtues and graces of faith which illuminate and transfigure the ordinary struggles and sacrifices of life.
Therese Desqueyroux is set in 1920’s France. It opens with a young woman standing alone outside a courthouse, awaiting her fate. Her father and her lawyer emerge, hardly acknowledging her when she hears that the case against her is dismissed for lack of evidence.
She has been accused of attempted murder in the poisoning of her husband.
Therese is sent back to him, alone, giving her time to plan her explanation, which lets the reader in on the events that led to her present condition.
Therese is an intelligent woman, educated in the secular fashion of the day, which emphasized the burgeoning philosophies of existential angst and meaninglessness. Her dearest friend, Anne, who becomes her sister-in-law, in contrast, is educated at a convent school. The contrast of the women is an effective device. Though they have very little in common, they are drawn to each other as cherished friends.
It is Anne’s friendship that is the light of young Therese’s life.
“In the corner of the dark coach, Therese looked back on those days, the pure days of her life—pure, yet lit by the vague and weak sense of happiness; back then, she didn't know that this troubled light playing upon her joy was to be all she would have in life.” Chapter 3
These small doses of joy and light from her youth must sustain her in her isolation and darkness. She has no other source. She has no light of love, not for her husband or her infant daughter. She has no faith in God, attending Church out of custom and to hear the interesting sermons from a priest she judges to be a fellow misfit. And hope? Her hope rests in the possibility of something interesting, something new, something akin to her experiment that leads to the poisoning of her husband.
In her attempt to fit into her role as wife of Bernard Desqueyroux, Therese accepts a mission to save Anne from a disastrous liaison with a local youth. Disastrous for several reasons: he has no money or family standing, it is suspected that his family are Jews trying to ‘pass’ in this tiny French village, and such a dalliance on Anne’s part would end the possibility of her marrying into the family her parents had chosen for her as a financial and social alliance.
The young man had seduced Anne with the delights of physical passion; Anne is despondent in their forced separation.
Therese sets out on her mission to end the affair. She is heavy with child, her body, the picture of the sensual for this brief period of her life, belying her true nature. Therese desires a life of the mind, a life in which she scorns the ordinary graces of the body. What a clever device Mauriac employs with this young man who can seduce one woman with his body and another with his intellect. Finally, finally, Therese has met someone who sets fire to her mind, increasing her hunger for ideas, philosophy, and intellectual greed!! When he leaves she is as devastated as her sister-in-law.
Perhaps Mauriac intended this novel to be an indictment of the small-minded provincialism that placed value on property rights and respectability at the cost of love and natural family affection. Therese Desqueyroux is drawn to the intellectual and the philosophical while she spurns the physical and spiritual. This theme places Therese Desqueyroux in the a la mode philosophers preaching the uselessness of life, the ennui, the emptiness and ultimately, the meaninglessness of life which dominated literature from the early twentieth century.
Perhaps.
Adjusting the scope a bit, Therese Desqueyroux is a morality tale that could horrify a reader as to the dangers of eschewing the physical, spiritual, and family life in almost exclusive favor of the intellect that folds in upon itself in a never ending quest for the next syllogism, the next proposal, the next philosophy, ultimately drawing its prey away from any light or hope.
Therese is saved from being a caricature by the glimpses we have of her longing for a certain kind of love, a certain kind of connection, even her faint hope that maybe her marriage can be saved and she can learn to cherish the ordinary tasks of life.
But there is no hope there. Her husband abandons her to solitude and the one dear friend she had in Anne is lost to her by Therese’s betrayal in breaking her connection with the young man.
In a high school religion class, my teacher postulated that hell was not a burning lake of fire or horrific demons poking its captives with long hot tridents. No, he continued, hell is being alone, eternally, because the ones sentenced to hell are those who lived their lives only for themselves, uncaring, indifferent, cold to those people they were called to love.
I recommend reading Therese Desqueyroux by François Mauriac.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Surprisingly Modern Read
By MKS
I learned of this novel by reading the Paris Review Art of Fiction interview with Mr. Mauriac, who spoke candidly of the influence of his faith on his writing. (My, oh, my! Where are today's Christian authors who write to levels that earn interviews in The Paris Review? Where are today's Francois Mauriac, Flannery O'Conner, Pearl Buck? But I digress.) Given Mr. Mauriac's tradition, I found this novel surprising, insightful, delightful. It's a good read, even for a 2015 reader.
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