What is Mauriac's central concept of sin?
Sin, for me, is not merely a transgression but a complex entanglement, a kind of spiritual miasma that can cling to us, emanating from the very mud and mire of our earthly existence from which, paradoxically, the purest flowers may sometimes arise. It is the seductive allure of the flesh, the pride that isolates, the envy that corrodes the heart – these are the insidious forces I sought to expose. Le mal est une chose si complexe; it is rarely a simple act but a slow corrosion of the soul, a departure from the divine light that can leave one adrift in a terrifying internal void.
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