Monday, December 10, 2007

Vipers' Tangle


If CS Lewis's Till We Have Faces is heart-rending, Francois Mauriac's Vipers' Tangle is gut-wrenching-- or maybe just a straight punch in the gut. It's brutally emotional, much more so than Till We Have Faces, but hopeful, though much less so than Lewis's retold myth.

Mauriac's story is in structured similarly to Till We Have Faces: Part One is, in effect, a confessional brief against the protagonist's wife and family, just as the opening two-thirds of TWHF is a brief-- a charge against the gods by Orual, Lewis's heroine. Likewise, both Lewis and Mauriac use part 2 of their stories to develop the themes of self-discovery. Till We Have Faces culminates with almost complete redemption and reconciliation, but Mauriac hides from the reader the moment of his protagonist's full surrender to the love of Christ, yet he points hopefully to it and hints beautifully at its means and motivations. In TWHF, what Orual has lost is restored. Mauriac's "hero," however, whose heart is the eponymous 'vipers' tangle,' has lost everything:

Those whom I should have loved are dead. Dead are those who might have loved me. As for the survivors, I no longer have the time, or the strength, to set out on a voyage towards them, to discover them. There is nothing in me, down to my voice, my gestures, my laugh, which does not belong to the monster whom I set up against the world, and to whom I gave my name.

This loss, however, leads him to glimpse the utter necessity of a power and a love outside himself:

One needed some strength, I said to myself. What kind of strength? Someone.

Yes, Someone in Whom we are all one, Who would be the guarantor of my victory over myself, in the eyes of my family; Someone Who would bear witness for me, Who would have relieved me of my foul burden, Who would have assumed it . . .

This is a rich, harsh, beautiful story. Sin is great. Grace abounds.

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