claustrophobic, genre, Julian Green

Green, Julien (1900-98). Catholic novelist, dramatist, and memorialist, born of American parents from the Southern states, which serve as a location for some of his fiction, but brought up in Paris and of French nationality. His early novels, such as Mont-Cinère (1926), Adrienne Mesurat (1927), and Léviathan (1928), evoke a claustrophobic world in which the characters' attempts to escape turn to passion, violence, and madness; they reflect Green's difficulties in reconciling sexuality, particularly homosexuality, with Catholicism. His work in the 1930s explores the possibility of escape from this bleak world through fantasy, and his later fiction, including Moïra (1950), Chaque homme dans sa nuit (1960), and L'Autre (1971), moves towards a more optimistic vision in which salvation is finally possible. In the 1950s he turned to drama, with three plays, Sud (1953), L'Ennemi (1954), and L'Ombre (1956), which show considerable dramatic talent and reflect the concerns of the novels. His spiritual and aesthetic evolution is recounted and explored in a third major area, his work as an autobiographer and, especially, diarist, whose Journal, begun in 1926, constitutes, with those of Gide and Mauriac, one of the major 20th-c. examples of the genre.

Definition

claustrophobia Hide phonetics
noun [U]
fear of being in enclosed spaces:
He suffers from claustrophobia so he never travels on underground trains.
Compare agoraphobia.

claustrophobic Hide phonetics
adjective
1 describes a place which is small and enclosed, and makes you feel uncomfortable when you are in it:
My room's a bit claustrophobic.

2 SPECIALIZED describes a person suffering from a fear of being in enclosed spaces

claustrophobic Hide phonetics
noun [C] SPECIALIZED
a claustrophobic person

Definition

genre Hide phonetics
noun [C] FORMAL
a style, especially in the arts, that involves a particular set of characteristics:
What genre does the book fall into - comedy or tragedy?
a literary/musical/film genre

genre Hide phonetics
adjective
produced according to a particular model or style:
a genre movie
genre fiction


━━ n., a. 型, 様式, ジャンル; 風俗画（の）.

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• 1. ジャンル、分野｛ぶんや｝、様式｛ようしき｝、部門｛ぶもん｝、形式｛けいしき｝、類型｛るいけい｝
• 2. 風俗画｛ふうぞくが｝