by François Mauriac · François Mauriac · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266002707
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«Le Sagouin» is the novel by François Mauriac, published by Pocket in paperback (139 pages, in French).
The novel portrays Guillou, a shy boy whom his mother disparagingly nicknames «le Sagouin». The last scion of an aristocratic family in decline, he finds refuge in reading adventure novels. When everyone has given up on him, the arrival of a young teacher opens a possible escape route. Mauriac composes a cruel portrait of a decadent nobility.
Originally published in 1951, this French edition dates from 2008. The author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
For readers of classic French fiction and short novels with psychological portraiture.
François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.
