Francois Mauriac's latest novel has all the power and lucidity of its predecessors, the same intense and highly personal religious feeling, and a particular nostalgic poetry of its own.
It is set in the early years of this century, when Catholic modernism and the hostility between Church and State were burning issues in France; and it tells of the growing up of Alain Gajac, heir to the Maltaverne estate-thousands of acres of farmland and pine forest near Bordeaux.
A Book of Memories is a novel within a novel. The outer shell of Hungarian author Peter Nadas's ambitious tale concerns a nameless Hungarian writer and his ménage à trois with an aging actress and ...
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