The best of Mauriac’s creative legacy—brilliant “Letters to a Stranger.” Paradoxical, full of delicate humor and lyricism, they are still considered a “standard of the genre.”
Everything you wanted to know about the conversation of a sentimental person, about intimacy, about malicious talk, about sincerity, about salon life, about a banquet, about lunch, about a conversation-game, about a serious conversation, about wit, about silence—everything is in the essay “The Art of Conversation.”