Title : Dixie - Julien Green - book
Summary :
The South... In Savannah as in Charleston, it's roses at Christmas, houses with white columns, elegant women strolling under the foliage of giant oaks or avenues of magnolias bursting with pale flowers, but it's also, this time, red suns on the battlefields and thunderstorms in the night.
Despite the time, 1862, and the war, the Civil War, Elizabeth is a young woman for all times, independent and in love. Twice widowed, one could even say three, she dreams of happiness, both physical and emotional. For young people, she represents the eternal feminine. Around her, the war becomes bloodier. At twenty-eight, ignoring conventions and prejudices, she will rediscover love in a simple soldier. Many other characters enliven this fresco where the laughter of life mixes with the tears of History, but it is the children who finally emerge in the foreground with Miss Llewelyn, the Welsh quartermaster, the only one who understands them and knows how to explain to them what they sense: victory must not hide the future.
And Dixie , the song of the South, floats over this world like a cry of love.
"It was to rediscover what my father and mother told me that I wrote my novels about the South. Mother especially. I was twelve years old when she confessed to me that, despite all our victories, we had been beaten. The South had lost. This marked my entire youth, and I can still see Mother hiding her face. Curiously, in my book, the children are nine, ten, eleven years old, the age when I still believed in my country as victorious..."
JG
Distant Countries and Southern Stars, the two previous novels that Julien Green devoted to the South, have just been reissued in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (volume VII of the author's Complete Works).
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EAN : 9782213593784
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