Description
In a sunlit yet merciless world, a doctor named Paul finds his marriage hollow and his heart pulled toward another woman, setting in motion a chain of desire, guilt, and emotional ruin. As his son Raymond becomes entangled in the same intoxicating presence, love turns from refuge into a kind of desert—drying every tenderness into obsession and forcing each man to confront what he has tried to deny. Through intimate psychological insight and a relentless attention to the body’s betrayals, the novel follows the torments that follow when longing collides with duty, family, and conscience. Mauriac’s signature style—lyrical, unsparing, and morally charged—makes this a haunting study of how love can wound, transform, and ultimately expose the fragile truths beneath respectable lives.
Available Editions
paperback
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published Jan 1, 1989
218 pages
ISBN: 9780881844856
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Details
First Published
1929
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Desert of Love by François Mauriac.