Les Mains Jointes Et Autres Poemes 1905-1932 (European Studies)

Les Mains jointes was the volume with which the future Nobel Prize winner, Francois Mauriac, first made an impact on the literary scene. This edition will make available a significant text that has been out of print for several decades. The book, edited by an acknowledged Mauriac specialist, will include an Introduction covering the composition and critical reception of the poems; an assessment of Mauriac's later dismissal of his early verse; Mauriac's evolution as a poet; and an overview of Mauriac's approach to versification. This will be followed by the text of the poems, and critical notes. Paul Cooke makes use for the first time of Mauriac's cahiers de jeunesse.
Paul Cooke is Lecturer in French at Exeter University, where he teaches and researches mainly in the area of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature. Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) is best known for his novels, many of which have been translated into English: Therese Desqueyroux, Le Noeud de viperes, Le Mystere Frontenac among them.