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The Correspondence of Jacques Maritain and Julien Green
Edited by Henry Bars & Eric Jourdan
Translated with an Introduction and revised notes by Bernard Doering
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York 1988
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Copyright 1988 by FORDHAM UNIVERSITY All rights reserved. LC 88-80056 ISBN 0-8232-1190-8
A translation of Julien Green et Jacques Maritain, UneGrandeAmiti: Correspondance,19261972 (Paris: Gallimard, 1982). Julien Green et Hritiers de Jacques Maritain, 1982 ditions Gallimard, 1982
Printed in the United States of America
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This Translation Is Dedicated To JANE And To My Children STEVE, BERNIE, KATHY, And TESS
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Contents
Translator's Introduction
Bernard Doering
1
The Friendship of Jacques Maritain and Julien Green
Henry Bars
9
The Living Jacques Maritain
Julien Green
35
The Correspondence
39
In the Eternal Light
Julien Green
271
Index Nominum
273
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Translator's Introduction
Bernard Doering
The First Edition of Une Grande Amiti: Correspondance [de Julien Green et Jacques Maritain], 19261972 was published by Plon in 1979 under the editorship of Jean-Pierre Piriou, who provided the introduction and notes. Reviewed extensively and enthusiastically in the French press, it soon sold out, and a second edition was prepared, this time by Gallimard.
Having made extensive use of the first edition in my book on Jacques Maritain and the French Catholic Intellectuals in 1983,1 I sent a copy to Julien Green, who in turn sent me a copy of the new edition with the following note: "I have taken the liberty of sending you the complete edition of Jacques' correspondence with me, for a good number of letters have been discovered. I gave permission for my letters to be published for the sole purpose of paying homage to the marvelous man whom I have had the good fortune and the happiness to love." In all, thirty-four additional letters had been discovered, almost exclusively those of Maritain, which filled in the evident lacunae of the first edition. Both authors saved all their letters, but Maritain's system of filing was far less orderly than Green's and often consisted of placing the newly received letter as a marker in the book he was reading or consulting at the time.
The second, complete edition was placed under the editorship of Henry Bars, a close friend of both Maritain's and Green's, who used as an introduction his extensive study of "The Friendship of Jacques Maritain and Julien Green" which had appeared two years earlier in the first issue of the Cahiers Jacques Maritain. He expanded the notes considerably and at the end of the correspondence added three entries from Julien Green's Journal which contain reflections on the news of Maritain's death. I reread the correspondence in this new complete edition and was so moved by the spiritual luminosity, by the delicate intimacy, by the clarity and beauty of style of these letters that I resolved to make them accessible to an English-speaking public in translation. I have also revised and expanded the notes for such an audience.2
There are many famous French literary correspondences. Names like Flaubert, Proust, Gide, Claudel, Rolland, Rivire come to mind. If such
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letters had never been written or made public, it is not literary history alone that would be impoverished, but literature itself, as well as our understanding of the mind and heart of man. Perhaps some day, as Proust suggested, tlphonages will have completely replaced such exchanges of letters, and we will never again be part of the conversations of such minds.
If the letters of Maritain and Green had never been written or made known to us, we would be missing something very special. These letters, of course, are of immense historical interest and value. They are a vivid evocation of a period which antedates most of us or which many of us find receding into oblivion with astonishing and disquieting rapidity, a past so lovingly recalled by Rassa Maritain in her memoirs Les Grandes Amitis (see 101.3) when writers, artists, musicians, philosophers, theologians, politicians, social activists, and many others gathered each Sunday at the Maritain home on the rue du Parc at Meudon in an extraordinary atmosphere of religious, intellectual, and artistic effervescence. But this is not their principal interest and value.
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