by François Mauriac · Orbis. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475301235
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«Nudo de víboras» is the French novel by François Mauriac published by Orbis in hardcover (207 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is presented as the long letter that a miserly sixty-eight-year-old lawyer, close to death, writes to his wife to pour out the feelings that have accompanied him all his life. Through his first-person confession, the story portrays an unhappy marriage and a family awaiting his inheritance, and reflects on loneliness, avarice, resentment and possible redemption.
Originally published in 1932 as «Le Nœud de vipères»; this Spanish edition is from 1982. The author received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction and novels of psychological introspection.
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.
