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edito-service Geneve, 1967, cercle du Bibliophile, tome IX, PLUSIEURS PHOTOS DE JEAN DE CORDIER ELIO SORCI, VIOLLET, WINDERBERGER, ALINARI GIRAUDON ET JACQUES SIX,, belle reliure bleue foncee cuir, je pense, ou imitation cuir? ... Read more

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Spiritual and Carnal Love
This early work by Francois Mauriac, the noted 20th-century French Catholic writer, foreshadows his later writings that deal with the conflict of spirit and flesh. The novel's "young man in chains" is a French student caught in a dilemma between his idealism, his longing for love, and his inability to break out of his self-imposed isolation and risk real involvement with other people. Written in the 1910s, this work to some extent reflects the young Mauriac who was attracted to Le Sillon, a vibrant social democratic Catholic youth movement that was eventually condemned by the Vatican for its efforts to root French Catholicism in the libertarian soil of the French Revolution. The character of the religious youth leader in the novel is modeled on Marc Sangnier, the leader of Sillon whose charismatic personality drew many young Catholics to his cause. Mauriac admired Sillon's idealism but experienced disillusionment with the movement's growing "cult of personality" around Sangnier. ... Read more