%0 Journal Article
%T Interpreting Conversion:  Hermeneutic Training in Fran£¿ois Mauriac¡¯s Le Noeud de vip¨¨res
%A Jason Lewallen
%J Christianity & Literature
%@ 2056-5666
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0148333118803121
%X This article considers the formative strategies of Fran£¿ois Mauriac¡¯s 1932 novel, Le Noeud de vip¨¨res (Vipers¡¯ Tangle), in light of contemporary Mauriac criticism. According to his most adamant critics, Mauriac was, at best, a secular writer, and, at worst, an insidious sensualist posing as a Catholic. This article offers an account of how Le Noeud de vip¨¨res succeeds in satisfying his conservative readership and gesturing toward a different conception of edifying literature with the tools of what Joshua Landy has called ¡°formative fiction,¡± shifting critical attention from the novel¡¯s content to its interpretation
%K Fran£¿ois Mauriac
%K secular
%K hermeneutics
%K religion and literature
%K Christianity and literature
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0148333118803121