The Shape of a City

Gracq, Julien

ISBN 10: 1885586396 / ISBN 13: 9781885586391

Editore: Turtle Point Press, 2005

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G1885586396I4N00

Riassunto:

The most original book of Julien Gracq's later output is about Nantes. It begins with a quotation from Baudelaire that Gracq repeats and distorts: "The shape of a city, as we all know, changes more quickly than the mortal heart." Nantes, still haunted by Andre Breton, Jacques Vache, and Rimbaud behind them, is reconstructed from a remembered image in which the Lycee Clemenceau occupies the center. Pathos filtered through humor guides the author as he writes of a child's experience of the hierarchy of urban spaces: the radial avenues walked during school recreation periods, the districts between these axes, the waterways, and the relationship of Nantes to the hinterlands that surround it.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Julien Gracq is the greatest living French author. He is the only living author whose works are contained in The Pleiades Editions of French Masterpieces. He won but refused the Prix Goncourt for Le Rivage des Syrtes. He writes "to settle a score with expression itself, to give form, stability, precision to things that are vague in the mind."

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Titolo: The Shape of a City
Casa editrice: Turtle Point Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2005
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket