André Maurois, a classic of 20th-century French literature, a novelist and essayist, a remarkable erudite, author of famous fictionalized biographies of Dumas, Balzac, Hugo, Byron, Turgenev, Chopin, and many others—he is considered a true master of psychological prose. His late novel “September Roses,” in which the author again explores the subtlest shades of human passions, is no less compelling than “Letters to an Unknown Lady” and “The Twists of Love,” beloved by Russian readers.
The hero of “September Roses” is a not-so-young but very successful writer, Guillaume Fonten, whose books everyone reads throughout France. In his life, perfectly arranged by a caring and jealous wife, everything goes as it should—yet he lacks a miracle: the miracle of love, thanks to which the autumn of life will become spring again, and in September roses will bloom…