Julien Gracq

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Julien Gracq , of his true name Louis Poirier is a writer French, born the July 27th 1910 Saint-Florent-the-Old with in the Maine-et-Loire. It is one of the most discrete authors of the French literary landscape, estimating that the writer must disappear behind his work. Nourished German Romanticism and Surrealism, the work of Julien Gracq mixes the strange one and fantastic symbolism.

Biography

Former student of the National university (promotion 1930), and of the Private school of political sciences, aggregate of geography in 1934, it makes a career of professor to the colleges of Quimper, Nantes, Amiens to finish his career with the college Claude Bernard of Paris where it teaches until in 1970.

During the Second world war it is mobilized.

After the refusal of Gallimard, it publishes its first work, With the castle of Argol , in the editor Jose Corti to which there remains faithful thereafter. André Breton notices the novel and contributes to the first movements of literary criticism. Gracq remains faithful to the person of Breton, without never belonging to the surrealist movement. Besides he writes a test entitled André Breton, some aspects of the writer in 1948.

The discovery in 1943 of On marble cliffs , the novel emblematic of Ernst Jünger, is for Gracq a true revelation. One finds similarities stylistics and sets of themes between two works in his following productions and the two men enter in relation. Jünger notes in its newspaper with dated April 2nd, 1980 by evoking people come to celebrate her four-twenty-fifth birthday:

With my Parisian friends, Julien Gracq had come: it is him which, after the death of my dear Marcel Jouhandeau, writes best prose française.

After having published in 1950 in the review Empédocle a wild Pamphlet, the Literature with the stomach , on the situation of the literature and the Literary prize S, Gracq remains coherent with itself and refuses the following year the Prix Goncourt for the Shore of Syrtes , which causes a media storm.

It publishes in 1958 a balcony in forest , a novel which takes support on its experiment of soldier in the the Ardennes at the beginning of the Second world war and which renews the topic of the birth of the love in the ambiguous context and finally tragedy of “Funny of war”. Touched by the strange character of the female character and the situation in love, the director Michel Mitrani draws from it in 1979 a film adaptation which preserves the same title.

Starting from the Years 1960, it publishes several texts of Critique arts person ( Préférences , Lettrines I , Lettrines II , While reading by writing ) where its elective choices history literature like its critical acuity show through. (It is noticed that this production rather quickly became, in the teachers of letters, a repertory of subjects of contest or examinations in the literary field.)

Always with the variation of the parisianism and the media and faithful to its editor Jose Corti, it continues to publish, in particular notes of readings drawn from many “books” which it entitles Lettrines , or accounts of voyage or walks, like Around the seven hills for Rome in 1988 and Carnets of main road in 1992. Its manner of writing and its training of geomorphologist refer of it for many geographers.

Works

Its complete Œuvres (until 1992) was published in 2 volumes in the Bibliothèque of the Pleiad in 1989 and 1995.

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