Zakłamanie serca na przykładzie powieści Faryzeuszka Françoisa Mauriaca
The hypocrisy of heart on the example of the novel by F. Mauriac „Pharisee”

Summary/Abstract: There has been more than seventy years by now since the first edition of the novel by François Mauriac Pharisee (first published in1941). It contains still alive and important truth about us, the truth which is marked by an important criterion of universality. It describes how important from the point of view of religion the heart is. The French Nobel Prize Winner touches – through the heroes of his novel – upon the biblical topic of a „heart of flesh” and a „petrified heart”. The literary analysis by Mauriac pertains one of the most solemn human sins – namely pride, described here by the phenomenon of „pharisaism”. For this reason a theologian will discover in the novel large opportunities for exploring the so-called locus theologicus. In this novel we will find neither vampirism nor will our curiosity fed with sensations nor there will be attempts the next moral taboo. Maybe that is why reaching out for this novel today is an act of prudence.

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