by François Mauriac · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253009665
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«La Fin de la Nuit» is the novel by François Mauriac, published by Livre de Poche in paperback (156 pages, in French).
Thérèse Desqueyroux, now mature, sees her solitary life in Paris disrupted when her seventeen-year-old daughter Marie appears unannounced. The reunion hints at the family's financial difficulties and Marie's desire to escape a stifling environment, while Thérèse faces a final love.
La Fin de la Nuit belongs to the Thérèse Desqueyroux cycle, of which it is the fourth instalment. The work was originally published in 1935; this paperback edition dates from 1995.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction and classical literature, particularly those interested in the character of Thérèse Desqueyroux.
François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.
