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Thérèse Desqueyroux (film, 2012)
Thérèse Desqueyroux may refer to: *Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel), ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' (novel), 1927 French novel by François Mauriac *Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962 film), ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' (1962 film), French adaptation of Mauriac's novel *Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012 film), ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' (2012 film), French adaptation of Mauriac's novel See also * Therese (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel)
''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' () is the most famous novel by François Mauriac. Plot The novel is set in the Landes, a sparsely populated area of south-west France covered largely with pine forests. As it opens, a court case is being dismissed. The main character, the titular Thérèse, has been tried for poisoning her husband Bernard by overdosing him with Fowler's Solution, a medicine containing arsenic. Despite strong evidence against her, including prescriptions she forged, the case has been dropped; the family closed ranks to prevent scandal and Bernard himself testified in her defence. On the journey home, Thérèse reflects at length on her life so far, trying to understand what brought her to continue poisoning her husband after she observed him taking an accidental overdose. She suggests that her actions were part of an "imperceptible slope", caused in part by the pressures of motherhood and marriage and the stifling life of a Catholic landowner's wife in 1920s rural Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |