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The Dark Angels
SKU: 978-1949899726
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By François Mauriac
“A sense of solitude, such as he had never known before, weighed him down. He was alone now. What had become of the hot fire within him?”
The Dark Angels continues the story of Alain Forcas and his sister, Tota—who first appeared in François Mauriac’s 1930 novel What Was Lost—as their lives unravel within a vicious web of family and extramarital relationships. Now curé of the village, Alain is presented with the confession of Gabriel Gradère, whose life of dissipation has chained him to his mistress, Aline. Gabriel has returned to his boyhood home to cheat Desbats, his rival for the love of Mathilde. Yet Mathilde loves Gabriel’s son, Andrès, who is infatuated with Tota. Emotional manipulation and the distortion of desire hangs the threat of violence over the village, and Alain is left to confront the full, perilous scope of his priestly duty.
First published in English on the eve of Mauriac’s 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Dark Angels is a superbly executed telling of how an obsession with revenge inevitably results in self-destruction.
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: 222pp.
ISBN: 978-1949899726
Product Details
By François Mauriac
“A sense of solitude, such as he had never known before, weighed him down. He was alone now. What had become of the hot fire within him?”
The Dark Angels continues the story of Alain Forcas and his sister, Tota—who first appeared in François Mauriac’s 1930 novel What Was Lost—as their lives unravel within a vicious web of family and extramarital relationships. Now curé of the village, Alain is presented with the confession of Gabriel Gradère, whose life of dissipation has chained him to his mistress, Aline. Gabriel has returned to his boyhood home to cheat Desbats, his rival for the love of Mathilde. Yet Mathilde loves Gabriel’s son, Andrès, who is infatuated with Tota. Emotional manipulation and the distortion of desire hangs the threat of violence over the village, and Alain is left to confront the full, perilous scope of his priestly duty.
First published in English on the eve of Mauriac’s 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Dark Angels is a superbly executed telling of how an obsession with revenge inevitably results in self-destruction.
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: 222pp.
ISBN: 978-1949899726
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