TY - JOUR
TI - Épaves by Julien Green : a modern acedia
AU - Andevert, Anne‐Laure
TI - Épaves by Julien Green : a modern acedia
AB - Julien Green immerses the reader in some oppressive boredom‐filled atmosphere, he also experienced. He was used to boredom, turning into acedia, taedium vitae, melancholy, nostalgia, overpowering neurasthenia, all this linked with his mother’s early death, the flesh/mind conflict or, even the exarcerbated awareness of a void existence. Acedia – a genuine individual experience – leaves the Greenian character facing an empty, pointless existence. Acedia spreads its invisible tentacles around the character who feels how empty life without God is. Apathetic, lazy, idle and weak, he flees all inner life, causing his immutable loneliness. This aridity is seen in an empty town and the immutable life he sinks into. The fatal row he witnessed, reveals his cowardice and creates a gap in his consciousness : the image of a strong, respectable man cracks turning acedia into an ordeal condemning him to painfully cohabitate with himself thus annihilating all ambition and selftranscendence.
VL - 2017
IS - Numéro 11 Acédie / Honte, malaise, inquiétude, ressentiment
PY - 2017
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 269
EP - 289
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.17.015.6909
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/epaves-de-julien-green-une-acedie-moderne
KW - acedia
KW - loneliness
KW - indifference
KW - immutability
KW - death