![]() ![]() It should be required reading for anyone setting out to describe their home place. ‘The Shape of a City’ is a model for how to write about one’s home place which, for Gracq, was the provincial city of Nantes, where he was raised and went to school. Thanks to Turtle Point Press, four other books-each distinct in form and content-are in print: ‘The Narrow Waters,’ a meditation on memory and travel ‘King Cophetu,’ a brief fiction of loss during World War I and my two particular favorites, ‘The Shape of a City’ and ‘Reading Writing.’ For those so inclined, Andre Breton hailed ‘The Castle of Argol’ as the only surrealist novel ever written. ![]() They are singular achievements: disturbing, delicate and written in a classical style that is endlessly sensuous and inviting. Four of his novels-’The Castle of Argol,’ ‘The Opposing Shore,’ ‘Balcony in the Forest’ and ‘The Dark Stranger’-have been translated and are available in various second-hand editions. ![]()
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