First edition, one of 112 numbered copies on vélin pur fil. Le Noeud de Vipères is one of the major French Catholic novels of the 20th century: a marital drama, depicting an old lawyer's rancour toward his family, his passion for money, and his final conversion. ‘Written shortly after the resolution of Mauriac’s extended religious crisis, the novel is one of the first to reconcile opposition to bourgeois hypocrisy with ultimate salvation’ (New Oxford Companion to Literature in French).

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