Moira
By Julien Green
1950
First Published
3.70
Average Rating
256
Number of Pages
Moira is a disturbing and neo-Gothic fable, in which the autobiographical hero in heterosexual disguise plays out his mystico-erotic compulsions. Set in the American South, the novel charts the fate of a university student, Joseph, who murders a girl whom he has raped. In Greek, of course, moira is a word meaning fate, and Green's pointed naming of Joseph's victim reveals his customary preoccupation with destiny as it pursues those whose sexuality disturbs them violently, even fatally.
Avg Rating
3.70
Number of Ratings
221
5 STARS
24%
4 STARS
38%
3 STARS
24%
2 STARS
12%
1 STARS
2%
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