GREEN, Julien (1900-1998), écrivain américain.

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GREEN, Julien (1900-1998), écrivain américain.
L.A.S., to Jean Denoël. August 12, 1951. 2 pp. in-8. "[...] I am very ungrateful for not having told you earlier the great pleasure that your letter gave me (is this lovely drawing by you?). I admired it and made you admire it, with a magnifying glass in hand. The colours are exquisite). ...] I am writing a book, seeing some friends and listening to music. Any other life seems so unreal to me. Is this really why we were brought into the world? On the other hand, life in monasteries doesn't seem to me to be strictly speaking evangelical, however beautiful it may be. Do we have the right to withdraw from the world? Did Christ do it? These questions have been troubling me a lot lately and I wondered what you might think about them. This is a strange holiday letter! But I feel more and more the urgency of trying to solve these problems, of looking at them for oneself and perhaps at the same time for others [...]".
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