A Soul Suffocating in Respectability. "Thérèse Desqueyroux" Explained

In this video, I explore François Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927), a novel not about passion or rebellion, but about moral suffocation: a soul trapped inside respectability, silence, and the keeping of appearances.
Through a comparison with Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, I examine how guilt, remorse, silence, and bourgeois morality function very differently in a Catholic moral vision — and why Mauriac’s novel remains one of the most devastating diagnoses of modern moral life.
This is not a story about crime.
It is a story about what happens when truth is never allowed to be spoken, mercy is never allowed to appear, and morality survives without air.
Topics include:
• Silence as a form of violence
• Guilt without remorse
• Respectability versus repentance
• Catholic realism without sentimentality
• Why moral correctness can become spiritually deadly
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