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Books Like Moïra by Julien Green
Novels of sexual obsession and the body at war with the spirit
Green's Joseph destroys the girl whose existence makes his Puritanism impossible — desire and religion in absolute, catastrophic conflict. These novels share that same world in which sexuality and religious guilt are inextricably linked and the resolution is always destruction.
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Buy on AmazonAdrienne Mesurat
by Julien Green
The French provincial counterpart to Moïra — a girl's obsessive love for a doctor she cannot reach; the same psychological extreme in a French bourgeois setting rather than the American South
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Buy on AmazonThérèse Desqueyroux
by François Mauriac
Mauriac's trapped provincial woman — the French bourgeois world that produces the same catastrophic resolution as Green's American one; the comparison illuminates both novelists
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Buy on AmazonWise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
O'Connor's Southern Gothic — Hazel Motes and the Church Without Christ; the American Protestant equivalent of Green's French Catholic investigation of sexuality and religious horror
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Buy on AmazonThe Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
Faulkner's Southern Gothic — the Compson family and the obsession with Caddy's sexuality; the American literary tradition in which Green's southern novels are embedded
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Buy on AmazonMont-Cinère
by Julien Green
Green's first novel — New England avarice and obsession; the American material in its first form; essential for understanding the arc from Green's American to French novels
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Buy on AmazonLéviathan
by Julien Green
Green's most supernatural novel — a provincial town, a man's obsession with a prostitute, the Catholic horror of the body at its most extreme; the darkest of the French-setting Green novels
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Buy on AmazonLe Journal d'un curé de campagne
by Georges Bernanos
The French Catholic counterpart — Bernanos's country priest moving through spiritual failure toward grace; the theological world that Green shares, in its French Catholic rather than American Protestant form
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Buy on AmazonSanctuary
by William Faulkner
Faulkner's most violent novel — Temple Drake and the violence that erupts from sexual obsession; the American Southern model that underlies Green's treatment of the same territory
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