Green, Julien

Green, Julien

▪ American writer
in full  Julien Hartridge Green , Julien also spelled   Julian 
born Sept. 6, 1900, Paris, France
died Aug. 13, 1998, Paris
 French American writer of sombre psychological novels that show a preoccupation with violence and death. Green was the first person of American parentage to be elected to the Académie Française (French Academy) (1971).

      The son of an American business agent in Paris, Green spent his youth in France and was deeply influenced by his mother's reminiscences of genteel society in the American South. After serving in the French army during World War I, he entered at age 19 the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and later taught there for a year (1921–22). He returned to France in 1922, but during World War II he taught again in the United States and then served in the U.S. Army (1942–45) before returning to France.

      Green's novels are written in French and are usually set in French provincial towns or in the American South. In the intense, claustrophobic atmosphere of these novels, neurotic characters engage in obsessive relationships marked by secrecy, guilt, betrayal, sexual passion, and violence. Green's first novel, Mont-Cinere (1926; Avarice House), about a young Virginia woman destroyed by her mother's greed, was favourably received in both France and the United States. The novels Adrienne Mesurat (1927; The Closed Garden) and Léviathan (1929; The Dark Journey) depict young women who fall victim to their own or others' unbridled sexuality. Green's subsequent novels include Si j'étais vous (1947; If I Were You), Moira (1950), Chaque homme dans sa nuit (1960; Each in His Darkness), L'Autre (1971; The Other One), and a trilogy of novels set in the antebellum South, the best known of which is Les pays lointains (1987; The Distant Lands).

      Green also wrote plays, one of which, Sud (1953; South), became in 1973 the basis of an opera with music by Kenton Coe. The autobiographical Memories of Happy Days (1942) was Green's only book written in English. His Journals, covering the years from 1926 and published in several separate volumes, contain his reflections on God, mortality, and the artist's obligations. Green's other works include collections of essays and four volumes of autobiography published in 1992 through 1996 covering the years 1900–29. In 1970 the Académie Française awarded him its grand prize for literature in appreciation of his masterful French prose style, which is marked by clarity, precision, and simplicity. Green's works were collected in Oeuvres Complètes, 10 vol. (1954–65).

Additional Reading
Studies of Green and his work include Samuel Stokes, Julian Green and the Thorn of Puritanism (1955, reprinted 1972); Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Julian Green, Gallic-American Novelist (1971); Anthony H. Newbury, Julien Green: Religion and Sensuality (1986); Kathryn Eberle Wildgen, Julien Green: The Great Themes (1993); and Michael O'Dwyer, Julien Green: A Critical Study (1997).

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