Correspondance

…Sacrifice impérial (1929); and his Correspondance (1953–55) show his unrelenting self-examination, his fantasy, and his verbal clowning, which concealed the profound torment of a convert, fearful of damnation and longing for heaven. His “novels,” mainly epistolary, are exercises in verbal mimicry, reproducing every nuance in the conversation of the petit-bourgeois,…