Julien Green
Not offered in Semester 2, 1997
Alexander García Düttmann
8 points
* 2 hours per week
* Second semester
* Clayton
Objectives On the successful completion of this subject students should have achieved a critical understanding of `visionary gaze' and of the relations of passion and fate as they emerge through a very close reading of Julien Green's fiction. Students should also have gained a nuanced understanding of a range of Green's writing, its contexts, and an appreciation of specific problems of translation. Finally, students should have gained skills in argumentation and in essay writing.
Synopsis Julien Green is one of the most distinguished French writers of this century. His work, though, has almost never become the topic of a discussion that goes beyond the conventional surface. Especially in his early novels Green draws the reader into the immanence of a world that seems to be governed by passion and fate; both are revealed in scenes imagined by a `visionary gaze'. Special attention will be paid to Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay on Green.
Assessment second year Tutorial paper (1500 words): 20%
* Short
essay (1500 words): 30%
* Long essay (3000 words): 50%
* Second-year
students are required to write two comparative essays.
Assessment third year Tutorial paper (1500 words): 20%
* Short essay
(1500 words): 30%
* Long essay (3000 words): 50%
* Third-year students
write one comparative and one research essay.
Prescribed texts
Green J Avarice house
Green J Adrienne Mesurat
Green J The dark journey
Green J Epaves Seuil
Benjamin W `Julien Green' in Gesammelte Schriften and `Les temps modernes' November 1991
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