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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Turtle Point Press; Paperback Edition edition (November 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1885586396
  • ISBN-13: 978-1885586391
  • Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 0.7 x 7.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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5.0 out of 5 starsBoundaries & Frontiers
By Doug Anderson VINE VOICE on July 18, 2008
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Julien Gracq (1910-2007), selected bibliography:

1938 The Castle of Argol
1951 The Opposing Shore
1958 The Balcony in the Forest
1985 The Shape of a City

Julien Gracq is one of those utterly unclassifiable writers. His earliest work, especially The Castle of Argol, was influenced by the surrealists, but Gracq was never one to be contained by any single literary movement or manifesto. The Castle of Argol reads like a gothic romance, albeit one full of twentieth-century psychosexual dramas & tensions, and marks the beginning of a lifelong obsession with how we (writers & readers) weave fictions out of our real experience and /or weave real experience out of our fictions. (In Gracq's work there are no clear demarcations separating the real from the imaginary.)

Though there are consistent themes in his many works, each must be considered on its own terms. 1938's The Castle of Argol may have been heavily influenced by the surrealists, but by the time he wrote The Opposing Shore in 1951, he had completely absorbed surrealism and merged it with his other lifelong obsessions, history & geography. The Opposing Shore takes place in an imaginary time and place and thus has the feel of a novel-length parable and yet the real world is never completely eclipsed by the parable. Instead, the effect is that the real is not eclipsed but enhanced--or poeticized!-- by Gracq's imaginative rendering of it. Gracq works like an archeologist of the imagination, digging for and laying bare the deeper truths that reside within our individual & collective psyches.Read more ›
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