The Cult of the Self

Sous l'Œil des Barbares (1888)
Un Homme Libre (1889)
Le Jardin de Bérénice (1891)

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]

  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.