by François Mauriac · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253004219
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«Thérèse Desqueyroux» is the novel by François Mauriac, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (189 pages, in French).
In the Landes region, Thérèse, wife of a landowner, lives a loveless marriage. Accused of attempting to poison her husband, the case is closed without trial and she remains confined at home. The novel explores her conscience, solitude, and the pressure of rural bourgeois society.
Work originally published in 1927; first instalment of the Thérèse Desqueyroux series and number 138 in the Le Livre de Poche collection.
For readers of French literary classics and European fiction.
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.
