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FRANCOIS MAURIAC
The Art of Fiction No. 2
Interviewed by Jean Le Marchand
Issue 2, Summer 1953
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INTERVIEWER
Do you believe that literature has been turned over to the philosophers by accident?

MAURIAC
There is a historical reason for it: the tragedy of France. Sartre expressed the despair of this generation. He did not create it, but he gave it a justification and a style.
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