Claude Mauriac


Jean Marc Claude Mauriac was a French essayist, novelist and journalist.
Mauriac was born in Paris, the eldest son of author François Mauriac. He was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a film critic and art critic of Le Figaro. He was the author of several novels and essays, and co-scripted the film adaptation of his father's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux. He also wrote a study of the novelist Marcel Proust, his wife's great-uncle.
Mauriac was a close friend of French philosopher Michel Foucault.

Essays

Novels

  • Le Dialogue intérieur:
  • *Toutes les femmes sont fatales. All Women Are Fatal, trans. Richard Howard ; also as Femmes Fatales, trans. Henry Wolff
  • *Le Dîner en ville. The Dinner Party, trans. Merloyd Lawrence ; republished as Dinner in Town
  • *La Marquise sortit à cinq heures. The Marquise Went Out at Five, trans. Richard Howard
  • *L'Agrandissement
  • Les Infiltrations de l'invisible:
  • *L'Oubli
  • *Le Bouddha s'est mis à trembler
  • *Un cœur tout neuf
  • *Radio Nuit
  • *Zabé
  • *Trans-Amour-Étoiles
  • *Journal d'une ombre
  • Le Fauteuil Rouge. Written under the pseudonym Harriet Pergoline.

Journals

  • Conversations avec André Gide
  • Une amitié contrariée
  • Un autre de Gaulle. The Other de Gaulle: Diaries 1944–1954, trans. Moura Budberg and Gordon Latta
  • Le Temps immobile:
  • *Le Temps immobile 1
  • *Le Temps immobile 2
  • *Le Temps immobile 3
  • *Le Temps immobile 4
  • *Le Temps immobile 5
  • *Le Temps immobile 6
  • *Le Temps immobile 7
  • *Le Temps immobile 8
  • *Le Temps immobile 9
  • *Le Temps immobile 10
  • Une certaine rage
  • L'Éternité parfois
  • Laurent Terzieff
  • Qui peut le dire ?
  • Le Temps accompli:
  • *Le Temps accompli 1
  • *Le Temps accompli 2
  • *Le Temps accompli 3
  • *''Le Temps accompli 4 ''

Plays

Awards and honours