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Francois Mauriac won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952, to this data eloquent in itself, should add success in their time Mauriac's novels in France, especially, and throughout Europe.
Mauriac in books always reflect their strong religious beliefs which dealt with basic moral conflict. Mindful of the dark side of human nature, his psychological analysis dealing with the struggle against evil waged inside men and women. Extraordinary stylist, Mauriac evokes an atmosphere full of feelings.
In an interview published in 1953, Mauriac explained the meaning of his writing:
"I am a metaphysician who works on the concrete. I try to make visible, tangible and smelly the Catholic universe of evil. Theologians give us an abstract idea of \u200b\u200bthe sinner. I endow flesh. Every novelist has to invent his own technique and that's the truth. Every novel worthy of the name that is like another planet, big or small, has its own laws and its own flora and fauna. "
"Knot of Vipers" tells the story of a miser, who scorned by his relatives who just want to inherit, are increasingly adhering to their wealth and only wants revenge disinherited. In the masterful writing Mauriac recognize moods and passions that do not correspond to imaginary beings but only hitting the souls of millions of people.
The protagonist of the book, written in first person, is a rich lawyer "Landes", a man of peasant origin that I bring to his marriage to the daughter of a family of gentry coming to less money and austerity, while that the only dowry she was his surname. The whole book recounts the bitterness of the protagonist after an unhappy marriage and children and grandchildren about how his death just waiting to get their money. But Mauriac leaves a door to hope and the strength of the blood just emerging.
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