Frances great Catholic author and Nobel Prize winner unfolds his thoughts on a variety of topics in a series of letters written to such men as Albert Camus Jean Cocteau Pierre Schaeffer and Jacques Rivière. Readers of Prousts Way Men I Hold Great and The Stumbling Block will find intense interest in Mauriacs reflections on the death of Georges Bernanos the Claudel-Gide correspondence and the Routier youth movement.