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  • a magician of words  

    Le Rivage Syrtes (Paperback)
    If I had to name one of the novels that changed my life, "shore" would appear in the list. Waiting- book on the comparison that comes to mind and the "Desert of the Tartars" of Buzati- obsession of waiting. Atmosphere, irenic, timeless
  • The most beautiful book of all time?  

    Le Rivage Syrtes (Paperback)
    Readers are judges. My judgment is made. I read it three times in my life, from the first to the last page. The first time was an absolute shock and initiation. I had twenty years. The second time, thinking that magic would operate more, it was the o
  • sublime as the ice  

    Le Rivage Syrtes (Paperback)
    This is a very special novel because he does not match any kind. Despite his narrative aspect in the first person, it does not allow us dentrer in dune conscience intimacy. The character nest quune soundboard. It is also not a historical novel, every
  • when the novel is poem  

    Le Rivage Syrtes (Paperback)
    If he is a man of letters who inspires me the most lively respect, it is Julien Gracq! Not only it brought the art of writing to heights that few reach, but in addition he refused all his life the thousand little meanness and other compromises that a
  • Poetics of waiting  

    Le Rivage Syrtes (Paperback)
    The style of Gracq is chiseled, accurate, Gracq is a geographer, he excels in the description of a landscape and soon we wander through the old streets of Orsenna, we think we see the crater of Tangri emerge from the mist. The plot is great, grand, a