03375nam 22006012 450 991045149950332120210531145055.094-012-0365-21-4294-5636-110.1163/9789401203654(CKB)1000000000471131(EBL)556445(OCoLC)86114555(SSID)ssj0000157951(PQKBManifestationID)12004088(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157951(PQKBWorkID)10140674(PQKB)10770743(MiAaPQ)EBC556445(Au-PeEL)EBL556445(CaPaEBR)ebr10380300(nllekb)BRILL9789401203654(EXLCZ)99100000000047113120200716d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrançois Mauriac The Making of an Intellectual /Edward WelchLeiden; Boston :BRILL,2006.1 online resource (203 p.)Faux Titre ;290Description based upon print version of record.90-420-2112-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgements -- Conventions of Reference -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Choices and Positionings -- Chapter 2: Death and Resurrection -- Chapter 3: Responsibility and Commitment -- Chapter 4: Commitment and Commodification -- Chapter 5: Abdication and Alienation -- Bibliography -- Index.While François Mauriac's reputation as a novelist is well established, it is often forgotten that fiction forms only part of his output, and that in the post-war years especially, it was principally his activities as a journalist which kept him in the public eye. His interventions in the key debates of the period helped to consolidate his position as a major intellectual alongside Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. This book examines the evolution of François Mauriac's career during the twentieth century, and his gradual transformation from novelist to intellectual. Situating Mauriac and his activities firmly in their socio-cultural context, it draws in particular on the insights provided by Bourdieusian sociology to explore the mechanisms and social processes which allow Mauriac to emerge as an authoritative voice of moral conscience. In doing so, it offers new perspective on key moments in his career, from his changing fortunes as a novelist in the 1930s, examined here for the first time through the prism of his reception by the influential Nouvelle Revue française , to his unlikely collaboration with the then-radical L'Express in the 1950s. At the same time, it argues that tracing Mauriac's trajectory helps to crystallise the broader changes affecting the literary and cultural landscape in France during the twentieth century.Faux Titre ;290.The Making of an IntellectualIntellectualsFrance20th centuryJournalistsFrance20th centuryElectronic books.IntellectualsJournalists843/.912Welch Edward277297NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910451499503321François Mauriac2481776UNINA