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Genetrix
SKU: 978-1950970940
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By François Mauriac
“He knew no greater happiness than to make his mother suffer.”
With the publication of his 1922 novel Le baiser au lepreux (A Kiss for the Leper), François Mauriac was hailed as a luminary in fiction. Genetrix, published the following year, demonstrated that this newly achieved stardom was more than deserved. The protagonist of Genetrix is Félicité Cazenave, the epitome of an overprotective, infantilizing mother, treating her fifty-year-old son Fernand as a weak and doltish child. When Fernand marries their young neighbor, Mathilde Coustous, Félicité is consumed with jealousy, swearing never to release her son.
Succeeding as few novelists ever have in portraying libido dominandi—the lust after power, Mauriac lends to this portrayal, in Genetrix, the menacing form of a mother’s love warped beyond recognition. Rendering beauty into bitterness, Mauriac shows the decay of love between mother and son as they madly, almost blindly, embrace the onrushing prospect of damnation.
François Mauriac (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 The Desert of Love; was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d’honneur; and named laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Paperback: 128pp.
ISBN: 978-1950970957
Product Details
By François Mauriac
“He knew no greater happiness than to make his mother suffer.”
With the publication of his 1922 novel Le baiser au lepreux (A Kiss for the Leper), François Mauriac was hailed as a luminary in fiction. Genetrix, published the following year, demonstrated that this newly achieved stardom was more than deserved. The protagonist of Genetrix is Félicité Cazenave, the epitome of an overprotective, infantilizing mother, treating her fifty-year-old son Fernand as a weak and doltish child. When Fernand marries their young neighbor, Mathilde Coustous, Félicité is consumed with jealousy, swearing never to release her son.
Succeeding as few novelists ever have in portraying libido dominandi—the lust after power, Mauriac lends to this portrayal, in Genetrix, the menacing form of a mother’s love warped beyond recognition. Rendering beauty into bitterness, Mauriac shows the decay of love between mother and son as they madly, almost blindly, embrace the onrushing prospect of damnation.
François Mauriac (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 The Desert of Love; was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d’honneur; and named laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Paperback: 128pp.
ISBN: 978-1950970957
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