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At night, when he went to bed, she would make him say 'The Lord's Prayer' with her in English.

Whenever he got into his bath tub in her presense, she used to say: After her mother's death in , Green followed his father into the Catholic Church. At the age of 5 or 6 he had begun to sense increasingly frantic yearning for sensual pleasure.

This hunger became focused on his male schoolmates. At the age of 17 he volunteered for the army in the World War I.

Like Hemingway, he drove an ambulance on the Italian front. Green then talked his way into a French artillery. Before being discharged, was a member of the Allied occupation force in Germany. From to Green studied in Paris and at the University of Virginia. His fascination with American society soon turned into feelings of displacement and in-betweenness. Later he described those years as "some of the saddest of my life.

He left the university without graduating and moved back to France, where joined the literary scene.

The work was inspired by stories he had heard from his American relatives. It gained a critical success both in France and in the United States. Green's first name Julian was changed to Julien in the late s by his first publisher.

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Until , his residence was on Rue Cortambert. The autobiographical L'autre sommeil was about homosexual awakening of the protagonist, and combined the experiences Green had in both the United States and France. With Le Visionnaire , The Dreamer and Minuit , Midnight , Green entered into a world of dreamlike battle between good and evil, passion and reason. Some critics have seen that these novels are not traditional anti-bourgeois novels, although they picture French provincial life in critical light.

Metaphysical boredom becomes the source of revolt, not social facts. In Green converted to Roman Catholicism for the second time.

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First time was after which he became a Buddhist. Green's early religious tensions are seen in the title of his first publishd work, Pamphlet contre les catholiques de France Between the years and , he lived in the U. During the war he prepared radio programs in French for the Allies.

He published little, aside Memories of Happy Days , an elegiac memoir of his childhood and youth. During this period Green examined the question, is the release of sensual passion confused with the liberation of the spirit.

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Some critics connected Green's "puritanism" to his American ancestry, some, on the other hand, to Jansenism. Green's Journal , together with Personal Record focused on the author's intellectual and social interests, without being solely a journal intime , an instrument of self-exploration. Although Green was bilingual, he wrote mainly in French. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Carl Van Vechten Main page Picture gallery 1 Rating statistics If you like Julien Green — Author of God's Fool: The Life of Francis of Assisi Includes the names: Autobiography, Green, Julien, Jeunes… 8 copies Green: Journal 6 copies Journal, 6 copies Vers l'invisible: Ein Reisetagebuch 5 copies Devant la porte sombre Journal 5 copies Les annees faciles journal 4 copies Journal - 4 copies Le Grand Large du soir: Dionysos ou La chasse aventureuse 2 copies Viaggiatore in terra: Francis of Assisi 13 to-read 25 travel 23 unread 9 USA Events on LibraryThing Local.

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