by Julien Green · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213031408
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«On est si sérieux quand on a 19 ans» is the diary Julien Green wrote between 1919 and 1924, published by Fayard in paperback (107 pages, in French).
In this youthful diary, Julien Green records between 1919 and 1924 his concerns: solitude, contempt for superficiality, the conflict between faith and desire, and the literary vocation. The volume anticipates the themes that would dominate Julien Green's work, with love of life and fear of living as a backdrop.
It is part of the Œuvres de Julien Green collection and is the first volume of the Journal, published in 1993.
For readers of intimate diaries and French literature, particularly those interested in Julien Green's career.
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.
