La chair et le sang

by François Mauriac

"La chair et le sang" by François Mauriac is a novel published in 1920. Claude Favereau abandons his seminary training and returns home to the Landes region, where he becomes entangled with the wealthy Dupont-Gunther siblings, May and Edward. As intellectual companionship deepens into confused desires, the boundaries between spiritual devotion and physical passion blur. When May prepares to marry another and Edward spirals toward despair, Claude must confront the mysterious forces of flesh and blood that bind and torment them all.