Gracq Julien - Great Liberty - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A previously untranslated gem of Surrealist prose poetry from the acclaimed French novelist In 1941, Julien Gracq newly released from a German prisoner - of - war camp wrote a series of prose poems that would come to represent the only properly Surrealist writings in his oeuvre. Surrealism provided Gracq with a means of counteracting his disturbing wartime experiences; his newfound freedom inspired a new freedom of personal expression and he gave the collection an appropriate title Great Liberty: In the occult dictionary of Surrealism the true name of poetry is liberation. Gracq the poet rather than the novelist is at work here: Surrealist fireworks lace through bewitching modernist romance fantasy black humor and deadpan absurdism. A later postwar section entitled The Habitable Earth presents Gracq as visionary traveler exploring Andes and Flanders and returning to the narrative impulse of his better - known fiction. Julien Gracq (1910 2007) born Louis Poirier is known for such dreamlike novels as The Castle of Argol A Dark Stranger The Opposing Shore and Balcony in the Forest. He was close to the Surrealist movement and Andr Breton in particular to whom he devoted a critical study.
Title: Great Liberty
Author(s): Gracq Julien
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Barcode: 9781939663894
Pages: 168 Pages, 1 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 6/27/2023
Category: Literary Essays