Between 1902 and 1912, during several stays in England, he wrote a doctoral thesis about the high unemployment among casually employed English dockers : Malègue worked principally with Charles Gide.

This was published in 1913 as Une forme spéciale de chômage : le travail casuel dans les ports anglais.

[4] Malègue was named the Catholic Proust by many French and Walloon literary critics, including Jacques Madaule and Léopold Levaux.

And it is also the Malègue's opinion when he writes about holy middle class in Augustin ou Le Maître est là.

The way he means the same idea as that the pope is (in Augustin ou Le Maître est là) : la sainteté ordinaire (banal holiness).

Malègue's Augustin ou le Maître est là is unique among Catholic novels, following Victor Brombert,[7] because, instead of writing about sex and sin as François Mauriac or Georges Bernanos, he poses the religious problem from an intellectual (not intellectualist) point of view.

Victorm Brombert citates L'imposture and the statement Yes intelligence can penetrate everything, just as a light can go through the thickness of crystal, but it is incapable of moving, of embracing.

But, in doing so, the author wrote a long (900 pages in the first edition) and authentic novel "without loss of either dramatic or psychological intensity".

Since Pope Francis quoted Malègue, a little part of the French public are more aware of his importance, which is the one of a great writer; the press reports on him.

The great Malègue's novel Augustin ou Le Maître est là was published for the last time in 1966.