In the year 1970, but On this day François Mauriac, Nobel Prize winner, died in 1952. This Bordeaux-born French author, in addition to being a writer, was a journalist and critic, and was considered one of the best Catholic writers of the XNUMXth century.
Among its distinctions, the following stand out:
- In 1933, he was appointed Member of the French Academy.
- In 1952, he was proclaimed Nobel Prize for Literature.
- And finally, in 1958, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Most outstanding works
Some of his most famous works are:
- "The kiss to the leper" (1922), the book that enshrined him.
- «Genitrix » (1923)
- "Evil" (1924)
- "The desert of love" (1925)
- "Thérèse Desqueyroux" (1927)
- "Destins" (1928)
- «Knot of Vipers » (1932)
- "Asmodeus" (his first theatrical novel in 1937).
- «The lamb" (1954)
- «A teenager from other times» (1969)
- "Maltaverne" (posthumous work published in 1972).
We can say that François Mauriac was one of those writers who dared to do anything: since poetry (his first two books were poems), until tests, stepping like not the novel and daring with him , (In the latter he received certain criticisms of his work).
It should also be noted that between work and work it was chronicler in the newspapers'L'Écho de Paris', and later in 'Le Figaro '.
Phrases and anecdote by François Mauriac
And we continue with a classic in Actualidad Literatura: we collect some of the words that this great writer left in the world before his departure. And finally, a small anecdote-note about an episode in his life:
- "I have no desire to play in a world where everyone cheats."
- "A bad writer can become a good critic, for the same reason that a bad wine can also become a good vinegar."
- "Death does not steal our loved ones. On the contrary, it keeps them for us and immortalizes them in our memory. Life does steal them from us many times and definitely ».
- "Most of the men look like great abandoned palaces: they occupy only a few rooms and have closed the wings where you never venture."
- «Do not confuse Jesus, the teacher, with the poor men who follow him from afar. Do not expect that its inconsistency can serve you eternally as an excuse ».
- "Writing is remembering, but reading is also remembering."
- "Reading, an open door to an enchanted world."
- "It is useless for man to win the Moon if he is to lose the Earth."
- "How little it costs to build castles in the air and how expensive is their destruction!"
As annotation of your life: Participated as an ambulance driver in the First World War.