by Julien Green · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253138334
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«Léviathan» is the novel by Julien Green, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (277 pages, in French).
Guéret, a tutor in a provincial town, falls in love with Angèle, a young laundress who is frivolous and self-interested. Guéret's naive, servile passion clashes with Angèle, who attracts him yet denies him, leading to a drama of obsession and desire. The novel weaves together a chronicle of manners and psychological portraiture in a disturbing atmosphere.
The novel was originally published in 1929; this French-language edition from Le Livre de Poche appeared in 1999.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction who appreciate psychological dramas of obsession and desire.
Julien Green, often Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote mostly in French and only occasionally in English. Over a long and prolific career, he authored novels and essays, several plays, and a biography of Francis of Assisi, produced a four-volume autobiography, and for decades maintained a daily journal that he edited and published in nineteen volumes. The posthumous publication of the unexpurgated text of his journals presented a different version of his personality and sexuality, revealed details of the lives of many of his prominent contemporaries, and documented the gay subculture of 20th-century France.
