{"product_id":"a-kiss-for-the-leper","title":"A Kiss for the Leper","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBy François Mauriac | With an Essay by Anthony Esolen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Péloueyre, \u003c\/b\u003eas ingrate heir to an extensive French estate, is a maladroit, misshapen, misbegotten young man. The very antithesis of a hero, Jean stands very much in need of salvation. And yet, as Anthony Esolen writes in the essay accompanying the novel, “The redeemers and the redeemed are not whom we expect.” Against Nietzschean notions of power and sentimental dilutions of Christianity, François Mauriac casts Jean and his young bride, Noémie, as heroic cooperators in their redemption. Leprous, unenlightened souls though they be, their Redeemer nevertheless lovingly bore the punishment that makes them whole.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eVisceral, violent, and saturated with the mystery of mercy, \u003ci\u003eA Kiss for the Leper \u003c\/i\u003efirmly established future Nobel Prize-winner Mauriac as one of the twentieth century’s novelists of note, evidencing the genius which would come to full fruition in his later novels such as \u003ci\u003eVipers’ Tangle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Woman of the Pharisees\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eThere are no Masters. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eWe are all of us born slaves \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eand we grow into the freedom of the Lord.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrançois Mauriac \u003c\/b\u003e(1885–1970) was a French Catholic novelist, poet, critic, and journalist. Critically acclaimed and respected, Mauriac received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Desert of Love\u003c\/i\u003e; was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d’honneur; and named laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 132pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1944418564\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68197671731385,"sku":"978-1944418564","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/ProductImages_168.jpg?v=1794089127","url":"https:\/\/catholicshop.com\/products\/a-kiss-for-the-leper","provider":"CatholicShop.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}