Thérèse Desqueyroux

…critical and creative work, including Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927), a novel about a woman who attempts to murder her husband to escape her suffocating life. Mauriac wrote viscerally of sin and portrays Thérèse as an especially volatile character, but she is also crafted as a person whose mind is drawn to…

Thérèse Desqueyroux) and Noeud de vipères (1932; The Knot of Vipers), blind to the romance and thrill of the modern, deployed the traditional form of the French psychological novel to evoke the banal desolation of characters deprived of God’s grace and stranded in a desert…