Julien Green – amerykański Brytyjczyk z Paryża: tożsamość transkulturowa?

Abstract

Julien Green was an American with insular roots, born in Paris, where he spent most of his life.Throughout his life, he experienced a sense of alienation, which could be attributed to the clash within his personality of elements stemming from various national cultures. Julien Green did not develop the new rationality proposed by transculturalism, which would allow for the integration of elements from different cultural systems into a unified whole. A closer examination of the differences between Green’s works written in or set in the United States and those written in or set in France reveals that his American heritage manifested as faith based on direct experience, his French heritage as a need for rational answers, his British heritage as an ironic sense of humor, and his Irish-Scottish heritage as a sensitivity to mystery. These elements cannot be synthesized into a new whole, yet the place Green found for them in his life suggests that this inability to integrate them was not the cause of his alienation.

Keywords

• tożsamość
• wyobcowanie
• kultura narodowa
• transkulturowość
• Julien Green