Young author of a religious pamphlet, Julien Green suspected an ethical and aesthetic imposture in this literary positioning. The desire for truth allows him to profess his faith, but the autobiographical confidences are subjected to complex requirements. For his novels, gushing out from the depths of the psyche, he rejects the catholic label: the spiritual sense of a writing that explores the darkness of the human condition paradoxically depends on the renunciation of any apologetic purpose
