Julien Green

Biography

After the death of his/her mother, a Protestant pious, it converts with the Catholicisme in 1916, following his/her father and of several of his sisters. In 1917, Julien Green engages in the Service of the American ambulances, then in 1918 is detached in French artillery. Demobilized in March 1919, it goes for the first time to the in September 1919 United States and fact of the studies to the University of Virginia, where it writes its first English book.

All the work of Green, which was deeply marked as well by its Homosexualité as by its faith Catholique, is dominated by the question of the faith, the good and the evil, and sexuality. Beside a great number of novels, it published also a newspaper. in 17 volumes between 1926 and 1997, to which the Big wide of the evening is added published on a purely posthumous basis in 2006. Its book If I were you inspired the Psychanalyste Melanie Klein.

He was elected with the French Academy on June 3rd 1971, with the armchair 22, succeeding François Mauriac. Its official reception took place on November 16th 1972. He declared outgoing Academy in 1996, but this one does not choose any successor to him before his disappearance in 1998. As opposed to what one believed, it had French nationality forever a long time: Pompidou had proposed it to him in 1972 after its election with the Academy, but it declined it. It was buried on August 21st 1998 with Klagenfurt (Austria) in the church St Egid. Moved by an old statue by the Virgin Mary at the time of a visit in 1990, the writer wished to be buried in one of the Chapelle S of the church. Julien Green is the adoptive father of the writer Eric Jourdan who filially remained to him faithful until his death.

The whole of its work was rewarded by multiple prices:

the Price Prince Pierre of Monaco, in 1951.
the national Grand Prix of the Letters, in 1966.
the Grand Prix of Literature of the French Academy, in 1970.
the Grand Prix of literature of Poland, in 1988.
the Cavour Price, Italian Grand Prix of literature, in 1991.

Works

Lampoon against the catholics of France , (under the pseudonym of Theophilus Delaporte), impr. of Darantière, Dijon, 1924.
Mount-Cinère (Romance), Plon-Nourishes and Co, Paris, 1926.
Adrienne Mesurat (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1927.
the keys of dead the , the Pleiad, Paris, 1927.
English Suite , the Books of Paris, Paris, 1927.
the Traveller on the ground , editions of the New French Review, Paris, 1927.
Léviathan (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1929.
the Other sleep (Romance), Gallimard, Paris, 1931.
Stray (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1932.
the Visionary (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1934.
Midnight (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1936.
the easy years (1928-1934) (newspaper I), Plon, Paris, 1938.
Last beautiful days (1935-1939) (newspaper II), Plon, Paris, 1939.
Varouna (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1940.
Memories off Happy Days (" Memories of the heureux" days;), in English, 1942
In front of the door sinks (1940-1943) (newspaper III), Plon, Paris, 1946.
If I were you (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1947.
the eye of the hurricane (1943-1945) (newspaper IV), Plon, Paris, 1949.
Moïra (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1950.
the ghost (1946-1950) (newspaper V), Plon, Paris, 1951.
Southern (theater), Théâtre of the Athenaeum, Paris, 1953.
the Enemy (theater), Theater of Puff out-Parisian, Paris, 1954.
the interior mirror (1950-1954) (newspaper VI), Plon, Paris, 1955.
the Criminal (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1956.
the Shade (theater), Theater Antoine, Paris, 1956.
beautiful today (1955-1958) the (newspaper VII), Plon, Paris, 1958.
Each man in his night (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1960.
To leave front the day (autobiography, 1900-1916), Grasset, Paris, 1963.
Thousand open ways (autobiography, 1916-1919), Grasset, Paris, 1964.
remote Ground (autobiography, 1919-1922), Grasset, Paris, 1966.
Towards invisible (1958-1967) the (newspaper VIII), Plon, Paris, 1967.
the other (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1971.
What remains day (1966-1972) (newspaper IX), Plon, Paris, 1972.
Jeunesse (autobiography), Plon, Paris, 1974.
the Night of the phantoms , Plon, Paris, 1976.
the bottle with the sea (1972-1976) (newspaper X), Plon, Paris, 1976.
the evil haunt (Romance), Plon, Paris, 1977.
what it is necessary of love for the man (test), Plon, Paris, 1978.
Demain does not exist (theater), 1979.
the Earth is so beautiful… (1976-1978) (newspaper XI), the Threshold, Paris, 1982.
Brother François , the Threshold, Paris, 1983.
the light of the world (1978-1981) (newspaper XII), the Threshold, Paris, 1983.
the Language and its double , Editions of the Difference, Paris, 1985.
Cities, Editions of the Difference, Paris, 1985.
youths , autobiography in 4 volumes, 1985.
remote Countries (Romance, Dixie I ), It Threshold, Paris, 1987.
the rainbow (1981-1984) (newspaper XIII), the Threshold, Paris, 1988.
Stars of the South (Romance, Dixie II ), the Threshold, Paris, 1989.
Most cherished liberty , the Threshold, Paris, 1989.
Paris , the Threshold, Paris, 1989.
the expatriate (1984-1990) (newspaper XIV), the Threshold, Paris, 1990.
the man and his shade , the Threshold, Paris, 1991.
Ralph and the fourth dimension , Flammarion, Paris, 1991.
the future is not with anybody (1990-1992) (newspaper XV), Fayard, Paris, 1993.
One is so serious when one is 19 years old (newspaper 1919-1924), Fayard, Paris, 1993.
Dixie (Romance, Dixie III ), the Threshold, Paris, 1994.
Pourquoi am I me? (1993-1996) (newspaper XVI), Beech, Paris, 1996.
Dionysos or adventurous hunting: prose poem , Beech, Paris, 1997.
immortal Youth (test), Gallimard, Paris, 1998.
Ahead over the tombs (1996-1997) (newspaper XVII), Beech, Paris, 2001.
the Big wide of the evening (1997-1998) (newspaper XVIII), Flammarion, Paris, 2006.
Memories of the happy days , Flammarion, Paris, 2007.

Critical bibliography

Carole Auroy, Julien Green, the mirror in glares: study on the autobiography , the editions of the Stag, Paris, 2000.
Philippe Derivière, Julien Green, the ways of the wandering , Slope of approach, Paris, 1994.
Marc Eigeldinger, Julien Green and the temptation of unreal the , Editions of the Doors of France, Paris, 1947.
Yves Floucat, Julien Green and Jacques Maritain. Love of truth and the fidelity of the heart , Paris, Editions Pierre Téqui, 1997.
Jean-Claude Joye, Julien Green and the world of fate , Arnaud Druck, Bern, 1964.
Melanie Klein, " The Identification " (On a novel of Julien Green: If I were you). in " Envy and gratitude". Paris, Gallimard-Such, 1978, ISBN 2070297802
Michael O' Dwyer, Julien Green: In Critical Study , Furnace Courts Near, Dublin, 1997, ISBN 1851822755
Annette Tamuly, Julien Green with the research of reality: phenomenologic approach , Naaman, Sherbrooke (Canada), 1976.
Wolfgang Matz, Julien Green, the century and its shade . Translated from German. Gallimard-mysteries, 1998.
Louis-Henri Bet, Julien Green, body and heart. Beech, 1994
Valerie Catelain, Julien Green and the initiatory way . The Cry, 2005

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