Genetrix Caryll Houselander which is the creative force

which is the creative force behind the “sustained social effort” of civilization

and moral and political philosophy

arise from an incomprehensible mystery

on the nature of Christian prayer

The greatest Catholic poem ever written since the Divine Comedy

Genetrix Caryll Houselander which is the creative forceBy Franois Mauriac Genetrix With the publication of the novel Le baiser au lepreux (A Kiss for the Leper) in 1922, Franois Mauriac was hailed as a luminary in fiction. Genetrix, published the following year, demonstrated that this newly achieved stardom was more than deserved. The protagonist of Genetrix is Flicit Cazenave, the epitome of an overprotective, infantilizing mother, treating her fifty year old son Fernand as a weak and doltish child. When