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Title: Two "Mendicants of Heaven": Francois Mauriac and Jacques Maritain (Critical Essay)
Author : Modern Age
Release Date : January 22, 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 192 KB

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Everyone lies, said Mauriac. In this area, writers are not an exception. Mauriac is a formidable literary critic; he is the gold standard of the profession: he knows the resources and tricks of the art of writing and he doesn't trust his confreres. Rousseau in particular comes in for criticism. But then, can one trust Mauriac himself? And can one trust Maritain, another writer? To be sure, everything we know about them witnesses to their desire to live in the truth. But didn't they fall short? In Jacques Maritain's case, the answer is certain even if one cannot prove it. His moral rectitude shines in all his acts and writings; his life demonstrates probity from one end to the other. Mauriac's case is more difficult. He was much more attracted to "the delicious and criminal use of the world" of which Pascal wrote. He is a novelist and hence in a certain way can hide behind literary fiction. To be sure, he is also a memoir writer, but when he speaks in the first person, he does not say everything, except perhaps by allusion. But he explains his own practice of writing and in many ways he revealed his passionate desire to speak the truth about himself. If one pays close attention to his art of writing, there are many reasons for thinking that he belongs among those who speak with an open heart.