Reading Writing [Paperback]

Every reader is a potential writer, and every writer is a reader in actuality.Reading Writingis 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 is founded upon the basic acts of reading and writing and on the relationship between the writer and his language.
 
This first English-language edition ofEn lisant en écrivantwill mark a turning point in the public reception of Julien Gracq.

 

Dedicated to the glory of literature, reading and writing are joined and transformed in exquisite continuity.

Julien Gracq is the greatest living French author. He is the only living author whose works are contained in The Pleiades Editions of French Masterpieces. He won but refused the Prix Goncourt for Le Rivage des Syrtes. He writes to settle a score with expression itself, to give form, stability, precision to things that are vague in the mind.