François Mauriac: A Critical Study Marcel (1864–1914) discerned his vocation at

(1864–1914) discerned his vocation at the age of sixteen after reading Lacordaire’s Life of Saint Dominic

per Philip Hughes

The Longest Years was hailed by critics as “forthright and untinted…honest and real

Henry VIII

he and his family fight forces both natural and social—floods and famine

François Mauriac: A Critical Study Marcel (1864–1914) discerned his vocation atBy Michael F. Moloney Widely read, little understoodthus could be described the standing of Franois Mauriac among his fellow Catholics in the twentieth century. Indeed, as Michael F. Moloney writes, no Catholic writer [was] the subject of more controversy among his co religionists than the 1952 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This study aims to set matters to rights with a critical analysis of Mauriacs ideological and artistic influences;