Claude Mauriac

Mauriac, Claude (1914-96). Son of François Mauriac, author of critical essays on his father, Breton, Proust, and others. His attachment to the Nouveau Roman and to the importance of form is evident in L'Alittérature contemporaine (1958), and in his own novels. Le Temps immobile (10 vols., 1974- ) constructs a set of non-chronological—and continuing—memoirs.

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Claude Mauriac (25 April 1914 – 22 March 1996) was a French author and journalist, eldest son of the author François Mauriac.

He was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a cinema critic and arts person of Figaro. He is the author of several novels and essays, and co-scripted the movie of his father's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux. He also wrote a study of the novelist Marcel Proust whose great niece was his wife.

External links

• Claude Mauriac at the Internet Movie Database
• The Claude Mauriac website.

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