Reading Writing
by Julien Gracq
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This first English-language edition of En lisant en e crivant marked a turning point in the public reception of Julien Gracq. Here he emerged as the ideal critic, a reader who accompanied himself in his reading like a "polite third party."Every reader is a potential writer and every writer is a reader in actuality. Reading Writing is a subjective history of fiction and poetry and a personal meditation on the links between literature and two visual arts: painting and cinema. Gracq's poetics show more is founded upon the basic acts of reading and writing and on the relationship between the writer and his language. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- En lisant en écrivant
- Original publication date
- 1980
- First words
- On ne connaît pratiquement pas de peintres qui naissent à leur art déjà armés de pied en cap de leur technique personnelle, maîtres de leur palette, de leur touche, de leurs empâtements, de leur glacis.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Le dix-neuvième siècle est de nature pythique et prophétique : il atteint à des profondeurs divinatoires dont le dix-huitième siècle n'a eu aucune idée, car il éclairait tout et ne devinait rien; son air de flûte humanitaire était celui du preneur de rats de Hameln, mais il ne le savait pas.
Classifications
- Genres
- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 808 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition
- LCC
- PQ2613 .R124 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English, French, German, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 4
