by Julien Green · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020095969
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«Les pays lointains» is the historical novel by Julien Green, published by Seuil in 1987, with 890 pages and text in French.
Set in Georgia and Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century, in the deep South of cotton and slavery. It combines the family saga with the military epic and follows the emotions of the protagonist, a sixteen-year-old English girl taken in by her American parents. Critics received the work with divided opinions.
First instalment of the Dixie series. Julien Green (1900-1998), of American parents and French nationality, was also a diarist.
For readers of historical novels and family sagas set in the southern United States.
Julien Green, often Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote mostly in French and only occasionally in English. Over a long and prolific career, he authored novels and essays, several plays, and a biography of Francis of Assisi, produced a four-volume autobiography, and for decades maintained a daily journal that he edited and published in nineteen volumes. The posthumous publication of the unexpurgated text of his journals presented a different version of his personality and sexuality, revealed details of the lives of many of his prominent contemporaries, and documented the gay subculture of 20th-century France.
