Into the Mouth of Time Boredom’s Tentacles in Some Works of Julien Green

This article covers the ravages of time in a few novels by Julien Green. His characters give up every action and they let cyclic time carry them along. That shuts them into a vacuum and vanity-filled existence. The dullness of time paralyzes them and impersonates their finitude. Thus they are overcome by an existential and insidious dizziness that reveals the gaping vacuum of life.