{"product_id":"genetrix","title":"Genetrix Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy François Mauriac\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“He knew no greater happiness than  to make his mother suffer.” \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith the publication \u003c\/b\u003eof his 1922 novel \u003ci\u003eLe baiser au lepreux \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eA Kiss for the Leper\u003c\/i\u003e), François Mauriac was hailed as a luminary in fiction. \u003ci\u003eGenetrix\u003c\/i\u003e, published the following year, demonstrated that this newly achieved stardom was more than deserved. The protagonist of \u003ci\u003eGenetrix\u003c\/i\u003e is Félicité Cazenave, the epitome of an overprotective, infantilizing mother, treating her fifty-year-old son Fernand as a weak and doltish child. When Fernand marries their young neighbor, Mathilde Coustous, Félicité is consumed with jealousy, swearing never to release her son.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSucceeding as few novelists ever have in portraying \u003ci\u003elibido dominandi\u003c\/i\u003e—the lust after power, Mauriac lends to this portrayal, in \u003ci\u003eGenetrix\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe menacing form of a mother’s love warped beyond recognition. Rendering beauty into bitterness, Mauriac shows the decay of love between mother and son as they madly, almost blindly, embrace the onrushing prospect of damnation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrançois Mauriac \u003c\/b\u003e(1885–1970) was a French Catholic novelist, poet, critic, and journalist. Critically acclaimed and respected, Mauriac received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Desert of Love\u003c\/i\u003e; was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d’honneur; and named laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e128pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1950970957\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68275442286813,"sku":"978-1950970940","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/ProductImages_264.jpg?v=1792889652","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/genetrix","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}