A Kiss for a Leper
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Nobel Prize winner - Mauriac's classic work that dissects the core of loveless marriage. It is a model of psychological analysis at the hall of French literature. It influenced Camus and Sartre's "Poison Master" and wrote about the suffocation of loveless marriage with a cold writing style. When marriage is reduced to a tool of reality and interests, and when two people are forced to consume each other in the same space, intimacy becomes a mental shackles that tortures each other. The greatest pain in love is that I love your freedom and freshness, but my existence is exactly the cage that imprisons your freedom. Jean Peruel, the son of a landowner, was young and wealthy, but ugly. As a result, he had low self-esteem and was sad, thinking that he could not be loved by the opposite sex. Jean's father regarded his son's marriage as a transaction and took a fancy to Noemi, a beautiful but poor girl from the neighbor's family. Noemi's parents also coveted Jean's family's wealth, so the two got married under the arrangement of the priest. There is no love in this marriage. Noemi's kiss is just a wife's duty, just like the kiss given by a saint to a leper, showing courtesy and mercy. Aware of Noemi's disgust and suffering, it hurt deeply, and made her feel even more painful and inferior. In order to free Noemi, whom he deeply loved, he decided to sacrifice himself to give her freedom...
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