François Mauriac

John Flower Professor of French,University of Kent at Canterbury Bernard Swift

• Towards a cultural approach to Mauriac's fiction - settings, ideology and "Ecriture" in "Genitrix", Brigitte Lane; oedipal and pre-oedipal elements in "Therese Desqueyroux, William Kidd; strategies of time in Mauriac's novels, Toby Garfitt; the eavesdropper as narrator, Colin Thornton-Smith; Mauriac and the art of the short story, Richard Griffiths; Francois Mauriac and French literary symbolism, Bernard C.Swift; Mauriac's contributions to the "Nouvelle Revue Francaise", John E.Flower; Mauriac and the raising of Dreyfus, Malcolm Scott; Francois Mauriac and Jansenism, Margaret Mein; images of Malagar - Claude and Francois Mauriac, Harriet Tillson; Mauriac and D.H.Lawrence, Margaret Parry; Mauriac in the English-speaking world, Keith Goesch.

'...an important book. [...] The picture of Mauriac which emerges is of a much more subtle, diverse and fluctuating mind than might perhaps be expected.'AUMLA