Abstract
The literary output of Tennessee writer Andrew Lytle belongs to the category defined by Richard Gray as the « literature of memory ». It means that its substance is directly inspired by the American past and that it is nourished by the author's views on American history. For Lythle the history of his country is a sequence of waste and depredation, an apprenticeship in unbridled power and pride, which eventually destroyed the spiritual values of Christendom. Lytle's allegiance to the Christian dogma, however, so often renewed and proclaimed in his critical and polemical essays, gives way in his novels to an enlarged mythic vision which makes of the settlement of the New World a re-enactment of the drama played out in Eden and of the linear apprehension of Time in the Christian soteriology a mere fragment of the eternal present of Myth.
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