By François Mauriac

The Life of Jesus is the Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac’s character study of Jesus Christ. Pairing the solid foundation of Scripture with his distinctive visceral style, Mauriac leads the reader through Christ’s early years, his public ministry and miracles, and his passion, death, and resurrection. The episodic structure of the book makes it a powerful aid for meditation, especially during Holy Week.

As a novelist, Mauriac is aptly suited to accomplish his mission: to show the meaning of Christ for an ordinary Christian, strongly bound up with the things of the world. In his other writings, Mauriac depicted the sadness and suffering of ordinary human existence. In The Life of Jesus, first published in English in 1937, he shows the light that illuminates the darkness—the light that is the Christ, the Son of God.

Here is the Man who is (and this is sure) the One I love the most in this world—and who for this reason is the One I have most betrayed. (François Mauriac)

François Mauriac (1885–1970) was a French, Roman Catholic novelist, poet, critic, and journalist. Critically acclaimed and respected, Mauriac received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française for his novel The Desert of Love; was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d’honneur; and was named laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Paperback: 234pp.

ISBN: 978-1949899535