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The River of Fire spiritual from where Undset and herBy Franois Mauriac We do not know what we desire: we do not love those whom we think we love. This musing from the lips of Mauriacs protagonist in Vipers Tangle might well sum up the entirety of his fictional works, but particularly his 1922 novel The River of Fire. Daniel Trasis finds sanctuary from his troublesome Parisian mistress at a hotel in the French countryside. There heencounters the seductively innocent Gisle de Plailly and her forbidding