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The Shape of a City

Julien Gracq

Nantes, city of Breton and Rimbaud, is reconstructed from a memory based on Gracq's childhood lycee.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Turtle Point Press
  • Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2005
  • Pages: 216
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.60in - 0.55lb
  • EAN: 9781885586391
  • Categories: EssaysGeneral

About the Author

Julien Gracq (1910-2007), born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, was one of the greatest French writers of the twentieth century. His work included essays, criticism, fiction and journalism. He won but refused the Prix Goncourt in 1951 for his novel Le Rivage des Syrtes (The Opposing Shore). This retiring and misunderstood figure said he wrote "to settle a score with expression itself, to give form, stability, precision to things that are vague in the mind."