Une identitè complexe masculinité, écriture et censure chez Julien Green

Julien Green may be a good example of how to study the complex history of masculinity from a literary point of view. As a novelist and author of a huge autobiography and one of the most important diaries, Green never ceased to question the split between the public and private self, the strength and fragility of the masculinity. In the pages of his recently published complete diary covering the years 1919-1940, Green traces the truths and tricks of a fragile masculinity struggling to adhere to an already decaying model. I will proceed with my reflection in four parts, aimed at examining first the relationship between truth and dissimulation, then the question of wandering and the complex relation between love and desire, and finally the relation between intimate writing and publishing.