A Kiss for the Leper

The Kiss to the Leper

Nobel laureate Mauriac's exquisite hardcover paperback! Directly translated from French, a portable book for worry-free travel.
With concise prose and moving language, he writes about hopeless men and women burdened by the shackles of fate...
Includes a special appendix: a final chapter written ten years after the book's publication, offering readers a complete view of the novel's characters.
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【Content Introduction】
"Everything about him was pure.
He revelled in his immaculate suffering."
Arranged by a priest and his father,
the ugly Jean Péloueyre marries the young and beautiful Noémi d'Artiailh.
He received "the kiss given by the lips of a saint of old to a leper,"
yet true happiness remained elusive.
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【Editor's Recommendation】
🤍 A mature work by Nobel laureate François Mauriac!
One of the inescapable literary influences on 20th-century French existentialists!
In 1952, Mauriac was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life."
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🤍 "A novel is nothing if it is not a study of man."
Mauriac was not only a man of letters but also actively participated in France's social and historical changes throughout his life.
He adhered to the creative philosophy of using novels as a medium to portray the human heart and reflect the spiritual crises of modernity,
writing about the depth, breadth, and struggles of human love and desire in a moving and thought-provoking way,
making his works an unmissable classic in 20th-century French literature.
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🤍 A stunning masterpiece that heralded the mature period of Mauriac's novelistic creation.
In 1922, Mauriac published "The Kiss to the Leper," which caused a sensation,
officially making him a dazzling star in the French literary world!
An absurd, bizarre marriage tortures a pair of men and women who cannot control their own destiny,
where is the happiness that people talk about...
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🤍 Special inclusion of the final chapter written ten years after the book's publication, completely narrating the protagonist's experiences.
Between approximately 1932 and 1937,
Mauriac revisited characters, situations, and themes he had previously written about,
refining, deepening, and extending them. The appended final chapter opens a window for readers to glimpse the development of the novel's characters.
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🤍 Cover designed by renowned young designer Xi He, hardcover paperback for worry-free outings.
Soft dust jacket + pearl hot stamping + elegant inner cover, perfectly presenting the delicate emotions and enduring artistic charm of Mauriac's works.
105*148 square-spine hardcover dual-cover paperback, small and exquisite, easy to carry for commuting or travel!

2025-01-01

广西师范大学出版社

wild spring

160

9787559874504