{"product_id":"9781939663894-great-liberty","title":"Gracq Julien - Great Liberty - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Great Liberty\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Gracq Julien\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Wakefield Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781939663894\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 168 Pages, 1 Illustrations, Unspecified\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 6\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Literary Essays","brand":"Gracq Julien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49626759233841,"sku":"IN-G-9781939663894","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781939663894.jpg?v=1724952719","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781939663894-great-liberty","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}