Genetrix Classics bringing to light the living

bringing to light the living

After spending three years directing AquinasAbroad

not its spirit

and above all

As powerful today as it was at the mid-way point of the twentieth century

Genetrix Classics bringing to light the livingBy Franois Mauriac Genetrix With the publication of the novel Le baiser au lepreux (A Kiss for the Leper) in 1922, Franois Mauriac was hailed as a luminary in fiction. Genetrix, published the following year, demonstrated that this newly achieved stardom was more than deserved. The protagonist of Genetrix is Flicit Cazenave, the epitome of an overprotective, infantilizing mother, treating her fifty year old son Fernand as a weak and doltish child. When