THÉRÈSE
Thérèse
By
FRANCOIS
MAURIAC
New York
Boni & Liveright
1928
A searing psychological portrait follows a woman confined within a respectable rural household as she grows increasingly alienated from marriage and family obligations. Quietly rebellious, she commits an act that leads to social scandal and legal proceedings, and the story moves between intimate interior monologue, courtroom scenes, and domestic detail. It examines moral ambiguity, loneliness, and the oppressive rituals of provincial society, probing the tensions between duty and desire, the role of religion and honor, and the small hypocrisies that sustain a brittle social order.
Thérèse
By
FRANCOIS
MAURIAC
New York
Boni & Liveright
1928