Book · 1927 · Fiction

Therese Desqueyroux

Name: Therese Desqueyroux
Author: Francois Mauriac

Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 128 pages

★ 6.0 editorial score

Cleared of poisoning her husband because her family closes ranks, Therese rides home through the pine forests of the Landes trying to explain herself. Mauriac makes provincial Catholic marriage feel like slow suffocation.

Genre

Psychological fiction

Medium

Novel

Subject

Marriage Social expectations

Setting

Landes

Time

1927

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