Great Liberty Paperback / softback
by Julien Gracq
Paperback / softback
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A previously untranslated gem of Surrealist prose poetry from the acclaimed French novelistIn 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 André Breton in particular, to whom he devoted a critical study.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, 1 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Wakefield Press
- Publication Date:27/06/2023
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- ISBN:9781939663894
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, 1 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Wakefield Press
- Publication Date:27/06/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781939663894