LE FIGARO. - How to characterize Mauriac's faith as it is expressed in his writings and his positions?
Xavier PATIER.- Mauriac's faith is expressed a lot. He never ceased to refer to it in his work and to invoke it to justify his political choices, from the Sillon to Gaullism, including the Moroccan question. He takes God on board in his positions, not without daring, especially since he vigorously challenges political Christianity. From a literary point of view, Mauriac's Christian faith walks somewhere between the first romanticism, that of Chateaubriand (which he detests), which tends to place literature in a role of auxiliary of the Roman Church, and the second romanticism, that of Baudelaire and Rimbaud (whom he admires), which tends to make Letters the only Church and of writing a divinity who needs no one. But Mauriac's faith is neither feverish nor romantic. It is based on the experience of a loving encounter with Christ. Ibn
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