Abstract EN:

The romantic universe of julien green's novels is haunted by death. A primary topic in "fear of death" describes the horror felt by the principal character when witnessing the spectacle of a burial. Confronted with the funeral event his disgust is doubled by a strange and astonishing fascination. The study of the couple eros and thanatos offers a clarification of the different phases of the criminal process which describes a genuine topology of death. The greenian hero is a slave of his deepest drives and captive of his destructive libido. He finds, however, a way of escape by his morbid reveries. A second section of the book called "death and fantasy" traces his imaginary voyages in communion with nature. He rediscovers childhood's paradise lost. But for julien green it is faith which is the "key" to the invisile prison built by the fear of death. A third section entitled "the metaphysical sense of death" makes us experience with the hero, who is the author's implicit and subterranean but luminous progress towards a rediscovery of his christianity. According to the christian author, paradise is living in the presence of the god of love, and