Literary diary 1952-1957

François Mauriac (1885-1970) in the XX. One of the major prose writers of French literature of the 19th century, a descendant of the great generation (Proust, Bernanos, Duhamel, Martin du Gard), he also received the Nobel Prize in 1952, although the question arose at that time: as a novelist or with articles and diaries. He was hardly a tougher critic of the moral depravity of French bourgeoisie, which he uncovered on the basis of his Catholic faith. His diary is not only an uplifting self-confession, but also an accurate description of the French spirituality of the age, a reading that encourages instructive historical adventure.