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.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.) The trilogy was influenced by Romanticism, and it also made an apology of the pleasure of the senses.Mellé, Rosine (1894). "Egotists." In: The Contemporary French Writers. Boston: Ginn & Company, pp. 168–174.
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.Thorold, Algar (1916). "The Ideas of Maurice Barrès," The Edinburgh Review, Vol. CCXXIII, No. 455, pp. 83–99. 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.
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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