France's great Catholic author and Nobel Prize winner unfolds his thoughts on a variety of topics in a series of letters written to such men as Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Schaeffer and Jacques Rivière. Readers of "Proust's Way", "Men I Hold Great" and "The Stumbling Block" will find intense interest in Mauriac's reflections on the death of Georges Bernanos, the Claudel-Gide correspondence and the Routier youth movement.