Moira

"Proust calls the magic hour of childhood to awaken; Green brings order to our earliest terrors. In the emptied dwelling of childhood, he sweeps away the traces of our parents' existence, and from the pile he creates by piling up pain and horror, their corpses suddenly burst out, as if piercing the body of the devotee they branded."
-Walter Benjamin-

Julien Green, whose "dark genius" was praised by André Gide and described as the "Christian Kafka" by Hermann Hesse, is the first foreign writer accepted to the Academie Française. In Moira, which Green wrote inspired by his youth at the University of Virginia, the "naturally romantic" desires of youth turn the lives of the characters into hell with the inhibition of religion or age; There is no happiness on earth for them anymore.

In Moira, which is a parable about the war between desire and faith, innocence and darkness, the source and consequences of religious violence, and a real foreboding of what can happen when desires are blocked, Green conveys the chaos of the world of Joseph, who excludes all worldly emotions in the name of religion and imprisons himself in a bell jar. shows how the pendulum can suddenly swing rapidly from one extreme to the other.

"An underground Balzac who moves the miner's lamp among much darker shadows than we are used to."
-Maurice Maeterlinc-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 286

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Everest Publications

Cover Design: Faruk Baydar

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Pages: 286

Language Turkish