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French literature --- Authors, French --- Ecrivains français --- Diaries. --- Journaux intimes --- Green, Julien, --- Ecrivains français --- Green, Julian, --- Grin, Z'ulyen, --- Irland, David, --- Green, Julian Hartridge, --- Delaporte, Théophile, --- Green, Julien --- Diaries --- Authors [French ] --- 20th century --- Green, Julian --- Grin, Z'ulyen --- Green, Julian Hartridge --- Delaporte, Théophile --- Ecrivains français - 20e siècle - Journaux intimes

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At the Periphery of the Center is the first comparison of two of France’s most important twentieth-century authors, Julien Green and Marguerite Yourcenar. It examines textual elements in their plays and novels to draw conclusions about the ways that they represent homosexuality in their texts. Both Yourcenar and Green turned to drama to explore aspects of same-sex desire that they felt unable to express in their prose. The analysis of their plays shows that an emphasis on dialogue and action makes drama a particularly appropriate genre for writing about homosexuality because it affords an author distance and therefore protection from the “proclivities” of his characters. The chapters on the novel show, by contrast, how prose fiction allows an author to explain a character's sexuality with a degree of subtlety difficult to achieve in theatre. Variations in narration and paratext allow writers to avoid condemning discourses and to find an original means of expression instead. At the Periphery brings a new, textually centered approach to Green’s and Yourcenar’s works that is unlike the psychological analyses that often typify queer readings. It will be of great interest to scholars of twentieth-century French literature and of Gender Studies. The book will also appeal to non-academic readers, however, since it is about two French authors who were also American citizens and who wrote about US history and contemporary culture.

French literature --- Homosexuality in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Yourcenar, Marguerite, --- Yourcenar, Marguerite --- Green, Julien, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Green, Julien --- Sex in literature. --- Crayencour, Marguerite de --- I︠U︡rsenar, Margerit --- Юрсенар, Маргерит --- Yourcenar, M. --- Yourcenar, Marg --- Yursenar, Margereṭ --- Yūrsn̲ār, Mārkerit --- יורסנאר, מרגרט --- Jursenar, Margerit --- Green, Julian --- Grin, Z'ulyen --- Irland, David, --- Green, Julian Hartridge --- Delaporte, Théophile

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Thematology --- French literature --- Green, Julien --- Mysticism in literature --- Mysticisme dans la littérature --- Green, Julien, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation --- Œuvre --- --Mysticism in literature --- Theses --- Mysticism in literature. --- Mysticisme dans la littérature --- Critique et interprétation --- Green, Julian, --- Grin, Z'ulyen, --- Irland, David, --- Green, Julian Hartridge, --- Delaporte, Théophile, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Green, Julian --- Grin, Z'ulyen --- Green, Julian Hartridge --- Delaporte, Théophile --- Green, Julien, 1900-1998 --- Green, julien (1900-1998)

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"Nous sommes tous des expatriés...". Ainsi s'ouvre le XIVe volume du "Journal" de Julien Green. Il nous plonge d'emblée dans le désordre de notre fin de siècle, non en contempteur de nos problèmes, mais en homme touché comme nous tous par les soubresauts de l'Histoire. Sans illusions, le réveil de la liberté à l'Est ne l'aveugle guère, et l'Europe telle qu'elle est conçue lui semble "un mystérieux loupage". Indifférent à la politique, mais pacifiste, il prête de plus en plus attention aux événements qui vont nous mener au XXIe siècle. Guerres, tyrannies, terrorisme, la drogue, le sida, voilà pour Julien Green les vrais obstacles à l'intelligence du monde futur. Mais, si ce "Journal" donne une place plus grande aux observations historiques, il les situe en même temps dans l'optique qui fut toujours la sienne : notre bref passage sur terre. Le plus étonnant dans ces pages, c'est leur jeunesse d'expression et le tempérament passionné qu'elles révèlent. Julien Green nous parle de tout ce qui lui tient à cœur, et particulièrement de ce qui fait la beauté du monde, la musique, la nature, la poésie ; le lecteur le découvrira au hasard comme il est naturel dans la variété d'un Journal, mais il aura surtout l'impression de pénétrer par effraction chez un homme plein d'humour, qui lui donnera cependant, avec le sens toujours plus vif de la liberté individuelle, le sens profond de l'amour.

French literature --- Authors, French --- Ecrivains français --- Diaries --- Journaux intimes --- Green, Julien, --- Green, Julien --- -French authors --- -Diaries --- -Green, Julian --- Ecrivains français --- Green, Julian, --- Grin, Z'ulyen, --- Irland, David, --- Green, Julian Hartridge, --- Delaporte, Théophile, --- Green, Julian --- Grin, Z'ulyen --- Green, Julian Hartridge --- Delaporte, Théophile --- 960 --- mémoires --- levensbeschrijvingen --- biographies et mémoires --- Authors, French - 20th century - Diaries --- Green, Julien, - 1900-1998 - Diaries --- Green, Julien, - 1900-1998