The Gracq: the Opposing Shore (Cloth) - Hardcover

Gracq, J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231057881 ISBN 13: 9780231057882

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Aldo, a young aristocrat of Orsenna, becomes aware of the delicate balance that preserves the peace between Orsenna and Farghestan, who have, technically, been at war for three hundred years

About this title

Book Description:

A vividly evocative novel of military tensions and menacing landscapes from one of the finest French writers of the twentieth century.

About the Author:

Julien Gracq was born in 1910 in a village of Anjou. As a lieutenant in the French Army he was captured in the fighting round Dunkirk in 1940 but released the following year. A schoolteacher by profession, he taught history and geography for a period in Paris at the Lycée Claude-Bernard while Georges Perec was a pupil there. Julien Gracq (a pen-name) is author of several novels, including Balcony in the Forest, also published by Harvill; describing as it does the "phoney war" preceeding the outbreak of World War II, that novel has a central element in common with The Opposing Shore.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0231057881
• ISBN 13: 9780231057882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292