VIPERS' TANGLE (288 pp.) François Mauriac, translated by Warre B. Wells Sheed & Ward ($3).
THERESE (383 pp.)François Mauriac, translated by Gerard HopkinsHolt ($3).
Though little-known in the U.S., François Mauriac ranks as one of France's half-dozen best living novelists. The publishing house of Holt is currently engaged in bringing out a uniform U.S. edition of all his works,* confident that he will shortly be as highly regarded in the U.S. as in his home country. But the forbidding theme of his novels may scare off many U.S. readers: Mauriac dwells in the gloomy fogs and disasters of moral corruption and puts...
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