by François Mauriac · POCKET · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266023139
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«Le Sagouin» is the novel by François Mauriac, published by POCKET in paperback (144 pages, in French).
Guillou is the son of an unhappy marriage between a rural squire and a bourgeois woman who wanted to escape her class. Despised by his mother, who only calls him «le Sagouin». In a village in southwestern France, a schoolteacher offers him a way out by treating him as a human being, but the prejudices of the village precipitate a tragedy.
The novel was originally published in 1951; this paperback edition dates from 1989 and bears number 1440 of the Pocket collection.
A classic of twentieth-century French literature, suitable for readers of European fiction and literary fiction.
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.
