Reading Writing

Gracq, Julien

ISBN 10: 1933527021 / ISBN 13: 9781933527024

Published by Turtle Point Press, 2006

About this Item

All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May include "From the library of" labels. Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Item may be missing bundled media.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Writing
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933527021
• ISBN 13: 9781933527024
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Every reader is a potential writer, and every writer is a reader in actuality. Reading Writing is a subjective history of fiction and poetry and a personal meditation on the links between literature and two visual arts: painting and cinema. Gracq’s poetics is founded upon the basic acts of reading and writing and on the relationship between the writer and his language.
 
This first English-language edition of En lisant en écrivant will mark a turning point in the public reception of Julien Gracq.

 

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."