Helene

By Pierre Jean Jouve

Book Overview

After his marriage to a psychiatrist nine years his senior, Jouve's work, once marked by the great Christian mystics, became grounded in the Freudian unconscious, site of the conflict between Eros and Thanatos. Hélène is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy's passion for an older woman. Originally published in 1934, it is considered the high point of Jouve's prose career.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081016003X
• ISBN13: 9780810160033
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Marlboro Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"