The title of Francois Mauriac's novel, Vipers' Tangle (French, Le Nœud de vipères, The Knot of Vipers) evokes Jesus' assault on the Pharisees as a “brood of vipers,” spawn of the serpent. It's a fitting allusion, since the novel, mostly an autobiographical epistle written by the greedy, irrelig. · By and large, Vipers’ Tangle by François Mauriac has been a marvellously deep and thought-provoking read about how we all tend to misunderstand and judge others, including the people closest to us, with the result that either we or they feel excluded and turn bitter if we don’t take care. In this light it seems wrong to call it an enjoyable novel, but reading the letters of a man who realises that Author: Edith Lagraziana. · Vipers’ Tangle is Louis’ record of the social and psychological forces which have shaped his solitude. The first part of his account is prompted by an explosion of hatred and vengeance.
― François Mauriac, Vipers' Tangle. 0 likes. Like "Yo no era un monstruo. La primera muchacha que me hubiese amado habría hecho de mí lo que hubiera querido." ― François Mauriac, Vipers' Tangle. 0 likes. Like "Ellos no saben lo que es la vejez. Vosotros no podéis imaginar este suplicio: no haber tenido nada de la vida y no. Franҫois Mauriac (): Defining the Catholic Novelist Viper's Tangle and A. 2 Woman of the Pharisees vie for the title of Mauriac's masterpiece. He published a comic children's book, The Holy Terror, as well. This is also the period in which he publishes some of his first non-fictional. "Both as a novelist in the tradition of Dostoevsky and as a poet in that of Baudelaire, Mauriac deserves his present position as one of the world's greatest writers."—The New York Times "One of the most human and Catholic of Mauriac's works, Vipers' Tangle could well be his greatest."—Best Sellers.
In François Mauriac Le Noeud de vipères (; Vipers’ Tangle) is often considered Mauriac’s masterpiece. It is a marital drama, depicting an old lawyer’s rancour toward his family, his passion for money, and his final conversion. Vipers’ Tangle is Louis’ record of the social and psychological forces which have shaped his solitude. The first part of his account is prompted by an explosion of hatred and vengeance. François Mauriac: Le noeud de vipères (Vipers’ Tangle; later: The Knot of Vipers) The novel starts with Louis, a retired lawyer, writing a bitter letter to his wife, which he expects her to find after his death. He plans on disinheriting her and their two children, Hubert and Geneviève. His hatred for the three of them is intense.
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