The Metamorphoses of the Self (Paperback)
The Mystic, the Sensualist, and the Artist in the Works of Julien Green
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
Pages: 128
Illustrations: Illus
ISBN: 9780813151984
Published: 15th July 2014
Script Academic
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
Pages: 128
Illustrations: Illus
ISBN: 9780813151984
Published: 15th July 2014
Script Academic
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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.
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