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the importance and the extent of his work, as an architect, a painter, a polemicist and homme de lettres, this last epithet being used by the artist himself on his French passport in 1930.
Whereas all his novels before and after had to compete for time with other endeavors like nonfiction books, journalism, political polemics, and the other chores incumbent upon the homme de lettres in the French tradition, Woman of the Pharisees was written while Mauriac was a virtual prisoner in his own house.
 
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