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Vipers' Tangle

Vipers' Tangle

ClassicsDrama
Pages
312
Published
1932
Language
French

Synopsis

An elderly, embittered lawyer spends his final days composing a scathing letter to his wife, detailing the decades of resentment he harbors toward his family. As he plots to disinherit his children, he is forced to confront the wreckage of his own life and the possibility of reconciliation. This psychological portrait explores the corrosive nature of hatred and the search for grace within a fractured household.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkReflectiveComplexMelancholic
Unreliable NarratorMorally GreyFamily Saga

Genres

Classics Drama Literary Fiction

Authors

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François Mauriac

The French author François Mauriac (1885-1970), a fervent Catholic, is best known for his novels, usually set in Bordeaux or the Landes district of southwestern France, with their central themes of faith, sin, and divine grace. François Mauriac was born in Bordeaux on Nov. 11, 1885, of a prosperous middle-class family. He lost his father in infancy, but the influence of his mother, a stern and puritanical Catholic, pervades his literary works. Educated at a Catholic school and at Bordeaux Un...

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Robert Coles

Robert Coles is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University.