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The Weakling and the Enemy

François Mauriac

出版	Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952
主題	Fiction / Literary
ISBN	03745264949780374526498
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mQM-AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

It seems that François Mauriac has put the best of his art into this cruel painting of a family of squires from the South-West of which the heir, a poor degenerate man, got into a mismatch by marrying a young girl who could not resist the desire to leave her bourgeois background and become a baroness. From this mismatched union was born a son, Guillou. We follow the ordeal of this child, so physically disgraced, so dirty, so backward that his mother only calls him the Sagouin. We will see him very close perhaps to salvation because finally someone, the village teacher, treats him like a human being, but this good and helpful man gives up taking care of the child of the "castle" and the tragedy rushes. Victim of the hatred of his mother to whom he only recalls odious memories, victim of the prejudices of the village, poor Guillou will drag her weak father into tragedy. This "dark and perfect news" - the word is Robert Kemp's - is a story of great intensity which evokes a world of hatred and suffering with a remarkable sobriety of means and a finished art.