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Francois Mauriac on Race, War, Politics, and Religion - The Great War Through the 1960s (Hardcover)
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Francois Mauriac on Race, War, Politics, and Religion - The Great War Through the 1960s (Hardcover)
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Nathan Bracher's Francois Mauriac on Race, War, Politics, and
Religion: The Great War Through the 1960s, consists of a selection
of some ninety editorials penned by the Catholic novelist and
intellectual Francois Mauriac, who received the Nobel Prize for
literature and who was admitted to the Academie Francaise in 1933.
As is often the case for prominent writers and intellectuals in
France, Mauriac became active in political punditry early in his
career, at the time of the First World War. Intensifying notably in
the tumultuous years of the 1930s on, this activity continues to
expand over the next five decades. After 1952, Mauriac's editorials
came to represent the most important dimension of his intellectual
activity. He was, to cite the prominent journalist and intellectual
Jean Daniel of Le Nouvel Observateur, France's most distinguished
and formidable editorialist of the twentieth century. Bracher's
book provides for the first time an opportunity for English
speaking readers to discover the incisive power, passionate
humanity, and historical perspicacity that made his voice one of
the most resonant in the French press. Mauriac's public stances on
events left nobody indifferent. He was the first to denounce
torture in Algeria, and the most eloquent in appealing to the
heritage of humanism left by Montaigne and the Sermon on the Mount.
The editorials collected here moreover provide a series of striking
perspectives on the most dramatic events that France had to
confront over the course of the twentieth century, from World War
I, to the rise of Fascism and the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s,
to the various episodes of World War II, on to the Cold War, the
strains of decolonization in the 1950s, and the reign of Charles de
Gaulle that coexisted with the upheaval of the 1960s. Mauriac's
gripping editorials enable the reader to revisit these historical
moments from within and through the eyes of a French Catholic
intellectual and writer who approaches them with passion,
commitment, and remarkable lucidity.
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