The Shape of a City - by Julien Gracq (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Nantes, city of Breton and Rimbaud, is reconstructed from a memory based on Gracq's childhood lycee.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Julien Gracq, the most important writer in France, is also the only living writer whose complete works appear in a volume of the prestigious <i>Pleiades</i> editions. The most original of his later works is this book about Nantes, which is Gracq's personal and profound response to Proust's synthesis of memory, reverie, and realism.</p><p>The work begins with a quote from Baudelaire: "The shape of a city, as we all know, changes more quickly than the mortal heart." The author writes of a child's experience of the hierarchy of urban spaces: the radial avenues walked during school recreation periods, the districts between the axes, and the relationship to Nantes of those who lived there, including Breton and Rimbaud.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 <i>Le Rivage des Syrtes</i> (<i>The Opposing Shore</i>). 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.
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