Julien Gracq - Works

Works

  • Au château d’Argol, 1938 (novel) (English translation: The Castle of Argol or château d'Argol)
  • Un beau ténébreux, 1945 (novel)
  • Liberté grande, 1947 (poetry)
  • Le Roi pêcheur, 1948 (play)
  • André Breton, quelques aspects de l’écrivain, 1948 (critique)
  • La Littérature à l'estomac, 1949
  • Le Rivage des Syrtes, 1951 (novel) (English translation: The Opposing Shore)

The Opposing Shore (Le Rivage des Syrtes, 1951) is Julien Gracq's most famous novel, a novel of waiting.
Set in a closed place (a fortress) close to a frontier (the sea) which defines the threshold between the here (the stagnant principality of Orsenna) and there (mysterious Farghestan), its lonely characters are in-betweens waiting for something to happen, wondering whether something must get done to bring about change, particularly when this may mean the death of men and states.

  • Prose pour l’Etrangère, 1952
  • Penthésilée, 1954
  • Un balcon en forêt, 1958 (novel) (English translation: A Balcony in the Forest)
  • Préférences, 1961
  • Lettrines, 1967
  • La Presqu’île, 1970
  • Le Roi Cophetua, 1970 (novel) (English translation: King Cophetua); it inspired the film Rendezvous at Bray, directed by André Delvaux
  • Lettrines II, 1974
  • Les Eaux Etroites, 1976 (Allusions, allegories and metaphors on a French river, l'Èvre.)
  • En lisant en écrivant, 1980
  • La Forme d’une ville, 1985
  • Autour des sept collines, 1988
  • Carnets du grand chemin, 1992
  • Entretiens, 2002

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