The Metamorphoses of the Self: The Mystic, the Sensualist, and the Artist in the Works of Julien Green - Paperback

by John M. Dunaway (Author)

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 stud

Author Biography

John M. Dunaway, professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Mercer University, is the author of The Double Vocation: Christian Presence in Twentieth-Century French Fiction.