François Mauriac
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Oct 1, 2026
Sigve TonstadGUEST
Maybe I could mention one more thing.
Sigve TonstadGUEST
When Elie Wiesel came to François Mauriac, who was a prominent French writer with his manuscript for the book The Night.
Sigve TonstadGUEST
Now, the story I have read since that there is a little bit of an embellishment in the story, but that it wasn't exactly the way it is.
Sigve TonstadGUEST
Mauriac tells it in his foreword to one of the versions I have of that book.
Joshua HrenGUEST
Um, and the novel, uh, uh, broadly speaking, at its best, really helps us, helps us to grapple with that.
Joshua HrenGUEST
You know, François Mauriac, the French novelist, um, said if there's, I'm paraphrasing here, but if there's a, a, a justification for the existence of the novel on the face of the earth, it's, it's this.
Joshua HrenGUEST
It's to light up or illumine those places of yearning for sanctity that exists in even the most depraved and degraded person on the face of the earth, and to illumine those parts of even the most saintly that are still sort of holding out from God-
Grace HammanHOST
Mm-hmm
John MerrimanHOST
There were pro-American intellectuals who made the case in the very beginning that the American path was the way to go.
John MerrimanHOST
The most famous was probably Raymond Aron, A-r-o-n, but there were others like François Mauriac, and I can't remember if Chipps in his book mentions his, I'm sure he does.
John MerrimanHOST
But the communist intellectuals were adamantly against all things that were American, and of course they were very much over the top.
John MerrimanHOST
Dick Keisel quotes the famous communist poet Louis Aragon describing the U.S. as, quote, a civilization of bathtubs and frigidaires.