title: Maltaverne: A Novel About a Young Man of Long Ago (English and French Edition)
author:  Francois Mauriac 
description: Text: English, French (translation)
  						    	
  						        	--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
zlib_text: FRANÇOIS MAURIAC
  
  
  Maltaverne
  
  
  (Un adolescent d’autrefois)
  
  
  TRANSLATED BY JEAN STEWART
  
  
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  Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  
  
  Published in French under the title Un adolescent d’autrefois, © Flammarion,
  1969
  
  
  This translation Maltaverne © 1970 Eyre & Spottiswoode
  
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  Library of Congress catalog card number: 70-113774
  
  
  First printing, 1970 Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  Table Of Contents
  
  
  [ I](006.html#a18)
  
  
  [II](007.html#a20)
  
  
  [III](008.html#a21)
  
  
  [IV](009.html#a22)
  
  
  [V](010.html#a23)
  
  
  [VI](011.html#a24)
  
  
  [VII](012.html#a25)
  
  
  [VIII](013.html#a26)
  
  
  [IX](014.html#a27)
  
  
  [X](015.html#a28)
  
  
  [XI](016.html#a30)
  
  
  [XII](017.html#a31)
  
  
  [XIII](018.html#a32)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘I write otherwise than I speak,
  
  
  I speak otherwise than I think,
  
  
  I think otherwise than I ought to think,
  
  
  and so on into the deepest heart of darkness’
  
  
  KAFKA
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##  I
  
  
  
  
  
  I am unlike other boys. If I were like other boys, at seventeen I should go
  shooting with Laur