by Julien Green · dtv Verlagsgesellschaft · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783423111317
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«Leviathan» is the novel by Julien Green published by dtv Verlagsgesellschaft in paperback (307 pages, in German).
The narrative follows Guéret, a poorly married teacher who becomes obsessed with Angèle, a young laundress from a French village. The protagonist's rejection and irrepressible desire turn his life and those around him into a nightmare of jealousy, guilt and muted violence. A dark psychological novel with an oppressive atmosphere.
The work was originally published in French in 1929 as «Léviathan». The German translation is by Eva Rechel-Mertens. The novel won the Harper Prize and bears number 11131 in the dtv collection.
For readers of classic crime fiction and twentieth-century French literature seeking an edition in German.
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.
