Julien Gracq

The Opposing Shore

Poetic meditation on war, memory, and temporal experience on coast

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Julien Gracq
Julien Gracq

French author associated with surrealism whose novel The Opposing Shore (Le Rivage des Syrtes) evokes the atmosphere of waiting for apocalyptic war with hypnotic intensity. He famously refused the Prix Goncourt in 1951.

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