"Green offers an elliptical coming-out tale ... elegant and hugely atmospheric"
SIMON LOVAT Gay Times
"The Other Sleep was, said Green, an act of self-deception; but in deceiving himself he produced something visionary and timeless ... this is rather more than a fictional exercise, it is a brave and extraordinarily honest account of the of the adolescence of Julien Green himself ... more than interesting, a true work of art"
"The Other Sleep was, said Green, an act of self-deception; but in deceiving himself he produced something visionary and timeless ... this is rather more than a fictional exercise, it is a brave and extraordinarily honest account of the of the adolescence of Julien Green himself ... more than interesting, a true work of art"
NICHOLAS LEZARD The Guardian
"The Other Sleep is written with humour and a poet's lightness of touch ... This is a book about pleasure itself, and the misery it can bring with its joy ... I found it inspired personal recollection; it is like entering the mind-set of a teenage boy"
"The Other Sleep is written with humour and a poet's lightness of touch ... This is a book about pleasure itself, and the misery it can bring with its joy ... I found it inspired personal recollection; it is like entering the mind-set of a teenage boy"
QX International
ABOUT THE BOOK
Standing on the parapet of a bridge, in the heart of Paris, a little boy is afraid; his cousin Claude is holding him by the ankles above the murky waters of the Seine. This becomes a backdrop to Denis' memories as a young man of a childhood marked by sadness. Within him, a struggle is taking place between the sheer wild joy of being alive and the despondency of existence. And it is in Paris, a Paris exquisitely etched, that his unspoken passion for Claude gradually unfolds.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Standing on the parapet of a bridge, in the heart of Paris, a little boy is afraid; his cousin Claude is holding him by the ankles above the murky waters of the Seine. This becomes a backdrop to Denis' memories as a young man of a childhood marked by sadness. Within him, a struggle is taking place between the sheer wild joy of being alive and the despondency of existence. And it is in Paris, a Paris exquisitely etched, that his unspoken passion for Claude gradually unfolds.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JULIEN GREEN was born of American parents in 1900 in Paris, where he spent most of his life until his death in August 1998. Bilingual, the majority of his sixty-two books, which consisted of novels, essays, plays, as well as the sixteen volumes of his celebrated Journal, were written in French.
Translated by Euan Cameron
Cover Illustration: Gustav Klimt
ISBN 978 1 901285 28 4
128pp
