The Sagouin. François Mauriac. May 10, 1951. Plon. The French Book Circle. Paperback edition. French literature.

The Sagouin.
Francois Mauriac.
The French Book Circle.
Plon.
May 10, 1951.
Printed in Canada
Paperback edition.
122 p.
19 cm x 12 cm.
Good condition (see photos).
Corners slightly rubbed (see photos).
Foxing at the junction of the spine and the back cover (see photos).
last cover pages uncut.
Very clean interior (see photos).

According to BABELIO's review...
"It seems that François Mauriac put the best of his art into this cruel painting of a family of squires from the South-West whose heir, a poor degenerate man, made a misalliance by marrying a young girl who could not resist the desire to leave her bourgeois background and become a baroness. From this ill-matched union a son, Guillou, was born. We follow the ordeal of this child, so physically disgraced, so dirty, so backward that his mother only calls him "the Sagouin". We will also see him perhaps very close to salvation because someone, the village teacher, treats him as a human being. Victim of the hatred of his mother to whom he only reminds of odious memories, victim of the village's prejudices, poor Guillou will drag his weak father into the tragedy."

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