The Metamorphoses of the Self The Mystic, the Sensualist, and the Artist in the Works of Julien Green |
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| Author:
| Dunaway, John M. |
| Series title: | Studies in Romance Languages Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8131-9450-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2021 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Kentucky
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $38.85 |
Book Description:
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American writer Julien Green's (1900-1998) origins, artistic motivation, and identity was a source of mystery and confusion even for those that most fêted him. The first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française, Green authored several novels (The Dark Journey, The Closed Garden, Moira, Each Man in His Darkness, and the Dixie trilogy), a four-volume autobiography (The Green Paradise, The War at Sixteen, Love in America and Restless...
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American writer Julien Green's (1900-1998) origins, artistic motivation, and identity was a source of mystery and confusion even for those that most fêted him. The first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française, Green authored several novels (The Dark Journey, The Closed Garden, Moira, Each Man in His Darkness, and the Dixie trilogy), a four-volume autobiography (The Green Paradise, The War at Sixteen, Love in America and Restless Youth), and his famous Diary.
In this study, John. M Dunaway begins with an examination of the autobiographical context of Julien Green's works, in which the duality of mystic and sensualist is quite clearly polarized. He then proceeds through a selected series of Green's fictional works in an attempt to show the birth and nature of the third self as a personal myth of the artist. He then considers the fiction in chronological order with the intention of demonstrating the evolution of the myth of the third self in Green's career.