Genetrix Caryll Houselander The greatest Catholic poem ever

The greatest Catholic poem ever written since the Divine Comedy

on the nature of Christian prayer

Paperback & E-book: 352pp

all that is seemly

Three Reformers is a quest to identify and articulate the germinative ideas of modernity as found in the minds of Martin Luther

Genetrix Caryll Houselander The greatest Catholic poem everBy 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