Green, Julien (1900-98). Catholic novelist, dramatist, and memorialist, born of American parents from the Southern states, which serve as a location for some of his fiction, but brought up in Paris and of French nationality. His early novels, such as Mont-Cinère (1926), Adrienne Mesurat (1927), and Léviathan (1928), evoke a claustrophobic world in which the characters' attempts to escape turn to passion, violence, and madness; they reflect Green's difficulties in reconciling sexuality, particularly homosexuality, with Catholicism. His work in the 1930s explores the possibility of escape from this bleak world through fantasy, and his later fiction, including Moïra (1950), Chaque homme dans sa nuit (1960), and L'Autre (1971), moves towards a more optimistic vision in which salvation is finally possible. In the 1950s he turned to drama, with three plays, Sud (1953), L'Ennemi (1954), and L'Ombre (1956), which show considerable dramatic talent and reflect the concerns of the novels. His spiritual and aesthetic evolution is recounted and explored in a third major area, his work as an autobiographer and, especially, diarist, whose Journal, begun in 1926, constitutes, with those of Gide and Mauriac, one of the major 20th-c. examples of the genre. [Nicholas Hewitt]
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Léviathan
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Adrienne Mesurat
16 editions - first published in 1927 Borrow -
Mont-Cinère
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Moïra
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Varouna
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Sud
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Minuit
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Le visionnaire
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Le voyageur sur la terre
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Journal
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Le malfaiteur
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Le viathan
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Partir avant le jour
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Diary, 1928-1957
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Chaque homme dans sa nuit
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Adrienne Mesurat
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Mont-Cine re
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Green
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Moira
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Épaves
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L' autre sommeil
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Personal record, 1928-1939
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Chaque homme dans sa nuit
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Le visionnaire
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Oeuvres complètes
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L' ombre
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L' ennemi
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Frère François
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Les étoiles du Sud
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Memories of happy days
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God's Fool
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Paris
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Le Mauvais Lieu
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Le mauvais lieu
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L' autre
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Mille chemins ouverts
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Paris
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Si j'étais vous
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L'autre sommeil
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Le Malfaiteur
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Les pays lointains
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Vers l'invisible, 1958-1967
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Le bel aujourd'hui
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Œuvres complètes
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Journal du voyageur
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Jeunes années
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Villes
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La bouteille à la mer
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Epaves
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L'autre
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Minuit, roman
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Vers l'invisible
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La fin d'un monde
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Autre
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Frère François
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La lumière du monde
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Histoires de vertige
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Histoires de vertige
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Midnight
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Jeunes années
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Suite anglaíse
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Journal 1926-1934
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Dionysos, ou, la Chasse aventureuse
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Suite anglaise
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Journal, 1928-1958
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Si j'étais vous... roman
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ʹEpaves
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Dixie
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Minuit
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Monte-cinère
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Each in his darkness
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Moira
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The strange river
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La nuit des fantômes
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Les Etoiles du Sud
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Avarice house
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Leviathan
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Le langage et son double
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Liberté
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Une grande amitié
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Pays lointains
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The transgressor
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Le voyageur sur la terre
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Entends la douce nuit
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La terre est si belle--
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L' homme et son ombre
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L' arc-en-ciel
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The war at sixteen
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Liberté chérie
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Journal, 1935-1939
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Adrienne Mesurat, roman
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Le voyageur sur la terre - Les clefs de la mort - Christine -Leviathan
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Jeunesse immortelle
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Then shall the dust return
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Théâtre, 1953-1956
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Love in America
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Träume und Schwindelgefühle
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Les clefs de la mort
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Memories of evil days
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Discours pour la réception de M. Julien Green: prononcés dans la séance publique tenue par l'Académie française le ..
1 edition - first published in 1972
Julien Green
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Fiction,
Childhood and youth,
Catholic Church,
History,
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Correspondence,
Doctrines,
French Personal narratives,
History and criticism,
Homes and haunts,
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Julien Green (1900-),
Julien Green (1900-1998),
Charles Lamb (1775-1834),
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855),
François Mauriac (1885-1970),
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864),
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784),
William Blake (1757-1827),
Francis of Assisi, Saint (1182-1226),
Francisco de Asís, San (1182-1226),
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973),
John Donne (1572-1631),
Julien Green,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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Alternative names
- Julian Green, Julian Hartridge Green, Theophile Delaporte, David Irland
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