![]() ![]() Thus, he successfully faced his troubled past and he went through the process of healing his bettered and fragmented sense of self. Mauriac achieved catharsis by creating – and identifying with – fictional people going through painful experiences similar to his own. ![]() ![]() The article contends that the author got " emotional closure " by creating characters, who, just like him, suffered and almost suffocated at the hands of their own relatives. This analysis does not mean to suggest that Mauriac was a misanthropist (or a misogynist for that matter, as the majority of his literary characters are females) or that he found pleasure in his characters' suffering. ![]() Mauriac infused his personal anguish into his fictions, but the question is whether his re-tributive stance towards his family lead to some form of catharsis. His literature can be read as an attempt to heal a psychic wound caused by his family background. It has been argued that the author's gloomy depiction of the family was directly related to his own upbringing. This article analyses the recurrent and overarching themes of hatred and silence in François Mauriac's fiction. ![]()
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