L'écriture de Mauriac m'a impressionné : ces paysages de Landes qui semblent refléter le désespoir sourd de Thérèse, cette relation à sa fille, le miroir qu'elle tend à Georges sur ses propres mesquineries. J'ai eu un temps de désoeuvrement quand le triangle s'installe, puis le final m'a ébloui à nouveau.
L'intériorité de Thérèse, sa honte, son sentiment d'inadéquation, tout est scruté si habilement qu'on a l'impression d'être dans ses os. On pourrait relire sans cesse le portrait de cette femme diminuée, et toujours en apprendre sur elle. La première partie de La Fin de la nuit est incroyable de nuances, complexités et ressorts psychologiques. It is an interesting novel, if not quite as fine as its predecessor, and something of a departure for Mauriac.Mon coeur a bondi quand j'ai su que Thérèse Desqueyroux avait une suite, et l'épaississement psychologique m'a délecté car je n'en espérai pas tant ! The rest of the novel is how Thérèse deals with this declaration and tries to bring Georges and her daughter together. They spend some time with him and, once Marie has left, Georges comes to visit Thérèse, where he tells her that it is she rather than Marie he loves. Thérèse persuades her daughter that she must return home to her father but, before departure, the two women go and see Georges. Marie is in love with Georges Filhot, son of a neighbour, and has left home to follow him to Paris, where he is studying. She is naturally glad to see Marie but finds that the seventeen-year old has an ulterior motive. It is her daughter, Marie, whom she has not seen for three years. One evening, there is a knock at the door. It is now fifteen years later and she is living alone in Paris, She is facing both financial and health problems. In his introduction, Mauriac makes it clear he wanted to continue the story of Thérèse. This is a follow-up to his Thérèse Desqueyroux (Therese later: Therese Desqueyroux), written eight years earlier. The latest addition to my website is François Mauriac‘s La Fin de la nuit (The End of the Night).
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