Francois Mauriac is a writer, whose creations originally merges traditions of classical novels with modern, modernist elements of a novel, that itself draws interest toward the time in his creations. Time - as an organizing element for composition of a creation – mainly determines the poetic features of Mauriac's novels.

The author believes, that the novelist is an omnipotent toward his creations. That's why he is compared with the God. Indeed, such ideas and approaches condition Mauriac's free and unlimited attitude to the time. In his creations he freely moves through past and future times and naturally shifts to the actual sphere of eternity, that finally establishes agonizing doubling between the transience and eternity in the writer's deep down.

In order to understand the Mauriac's time, one should consider the most important moment - the place or scene of his novels, - as time is a special measurement for the writer. A province, where the Mauriac's dramas do develop, constantly opposites with Paris and the Paris's time never interferes with the provincial time.Narration of Mauriac in majority of cases is traditional and rectilinear, however, in some cases it is in retrospect, cyclic, and, the character's unexpected transfer to the past or move to the future enables the writer to extend the creation's time-frame. Yet, the memories of the past are not chaotic with Mauriac, but vise versa – they are chronologically organized.

Subsequently, the writer remains devoted to the traditions even when using the new techniques of novel.