Excerpt from What I Believe: Translated and With an Introduction by Wallace Fowlie To the younger French reader today, M. Mauriac is better known as a journalist, as an academician, and even as a polemicist than as a novelist. Even ten years ago, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1952, Mauriac was looked upon as a weekly adviser to the French, as a chronicler and critic of social and political and religious problems in his journalistic writings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.