The Cult of the Self explained

The Cult of the Self (French: Le Culte du moi) is a trilogy of books by French author Maurice Barrès, sometimes called his trilogie du moi.^[1] The trilogy was influenced by Romanticism, and it also made an apology of the pleasure of the senses.^[2]

Background

Barrès wrote the works while living in Italy. The first book, Under the Eyes of the Barbarians, (Sous l'œil des barbares) was published in 1888.^[3] The second work, A Free Man, (Un Homme libre), was published in 1889. The final book, The Garden of Berenice (Le Jardin de Bérénice), was published in 1891.

External links

• The Cult of the Self: Sous l'oeil des barbares, Un homme libre, and Le jardin de Bérénice (in French) via Project Gutenberg

Notes and References

1. Huneker, James (1907). "The Evolution of an Egoist: Maurice Barrès," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. C, pp. 205–215 (rep. in Egoists: A Book of Supermen. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909, pp. 207–235.)
2. Mellé, Rosine (1894). "Egotists." In: The Contemporary French Writers. Boston: Ginn & Company, pp. 168–174.
3. Thorold, Algar (1916). "The Ideas of Maurice Barrès," The Edinburgh Review, Vol. CCXXIII, No. 455, pp. 83–99.