![]() ![]() Gracq lived a quiet life in his native town of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, on the banks of the Loire River. He remained distant from major literary events and faithful to his first publisher, José Corti. In 1989, Gracq's work was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. ![]() In 1979, he wrote the foreword to a re-edition of the Journal de l'analogiste (1954) by Suzanne Lilar, a work he called a "sumptuous initiation to poetry" ( "une initiation somptueuse à la poésie"). Gracq taught history and geography in secondary school (high school) until he retired in 1970. When he won the Prix Goncourt for The Opposing Shore ( Le Rivage des Syrtes) the following year, he remained consistent with his criticism and refused the prize. ![]() In 1950, he published a fierce attack on contemporary literary culture and literary prizes in the review Empédocle titled La Littérature à l'estomac. ![]() One of the friendships he formed there was with author and literary critic Armand Hoog, who later described Gracq as a passionate individualist and ferociously anti- Vichy. In 1936, he joined the French Communist Party but quit the party in 1939 after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed.ĭuring the Second World War, he was a prisoner of war in Silesia with other officers of the French Army. His first novel, The Castle of Argol, is dedicated to that surrealist writer, to whom he devoted a whole book in 1948. In 1932, he read André Breton's Nadja, which deeply influenced him. ![]()
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