#gracq

[majestativa]

My ear against your heart, in the heart of the night.

— Julien Gracq, Prose pour l'Étrangère, to Nora Mitrani, transl by Alan Jenkins

[exhaled-spirals]

Tant de mains pour transformer ce monde, et si peu de regards pour le contempler.

— Julien Gracq, Lettrines

[viecome]

Lo bello es ante todo lo que desorienta, Julien Gracq

Hace tiempo tuve ocasión de hablar con un crítico de una novela inglesa recientemente traducida, y de asombrarme ante él de que la crítica la acogiera con un completo silencio. “Y sin embargo —le d… Origen: Lo bello es ante todo lo que desorienta, Julien Gracq – Calle del Orco

[older-is-better]

Julien Gracq.

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

New Directions cover of Julien Gracq's "A Dark Stranger" (1951) by Gertrude Huston

[amalgameheteroclite]

[dooareyastudy]

March 2023

Un beau ténébreux, Julien Gracq, 1945 | How come each Gracq’s book I read becomes my favorite? Well, Le roi pêcheur is still my absolute favorite but this one comes right after. The atmosphere, the tension, everthing is addicting. The writing, so elegant and striking. I really love Julien Gracq you guys.

Philosophie du droit, Jacques Ellul, 2022 | This is a lecture from the 70s given by Ellul to PhD students in Bordeaux. Kinda sad to see that PhD students from that same university are now mainly offered lectures on entrepreneurship and how not to be too depressed during their thesis! About the book itself, just like a lecture, some bits are really interesting and others less. Not too dense, overall a good introduction to law philosophy I think!

Pensées, Blaise Pascal, 1669 | I read this in order to read another book about jansenism and the figure of God in Pascal’s, Racine’s and Kant’s work. I’ll admit I skipped the parts about theology but the first half of the book is really worth reading. Not gonna lie, I wouldn’t have enjoy reading this if not for Goldmann’s book that brings a really interesting light on Pascal’s philosophy!

Le Dieu caché, Lucien Goldmann, 1955 | This book is an analysis of Pascal’s Pensées (and Racine’s tragedies but this is a very short part of the book unfortunately). I really like how it uses concepts and methods from Hegel and Marx to give a really deep and interesting insight on Pascal’s philosophy. The main concept of the book is the concept of “vision du monde” (world view). The author tries to demonstrate that Pascal’s philosophy (and Racine’s tragedies) embodies a tragic world view. The author shows that Pascal’s philosophy is one of paradoxes that cannot be solve in the world, but only in christian heaven. Thus, a never ending suffering for the one that cannot not live in the world where everything is relative and full of contradictions yet aspires to something absolute that can embrace and overtake the contradictions.

Liberté grande, Julien Gracq, 1946 | I was a bit disappointed but not too surprising as I am not usually a fan of prose poetry! Well, I had to have a least favorite Gracq’s piece!

Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann, 1901 | Second book by Mann that I read and he is slowly but surely becoming an author that I really enjoy. This one is the portrayal of an old and wealthy family declining in a generation or so. The writing is clever, witty, often funny, often touching. Reading it was a ride! It had been a while since I appreciated a book so much for its characters.

La forme d’une ville, Julien Gracq, 1985 | An essay about the French city of Nantes and its role in shaping what is a city for the author. Very poetic essay (very Gracq), as the title suggests : as Baudelaire wrote, “la forme d'une ville change plus vite, hélas ! que le cœur d'un mortel”. It isn’t a description of Nantes as it is (was) but rather an exploration of the city as it exists in Gracq’s memory and mind.

[croquel]

jackie & lysistrata

a rough marguerite design

bonus lysistrata from the thumbnail haha

nov 17: stain’d by the sea

i draw the main kiddos from atwq quite often, so i thought i’d give file under: 13 suspicious incidents some love

[syrupwit]

[livres-de-lours]

livre 15

[fabiansteinhauer]

[majestativa]

Je te désire comme l'océan désire la lune.

(I crave you like the sea craves the moon.)

— Julien Gracq, Prose pour l'Étrangère, to Nora Mitrani,

[exhaled-spirals]

« There’s nothing that people rebel more against, I told Jacques, than being forced to acknowledge the secret and immediate power their fellow human beings have over them. . . A savage power, as indifferent as a thunderbolt, where intellect, merit, beauty, language are nothing but animal electricity, a polarity that suddenly develops. . . We never talk about it—it’s taboo. »

— Julien Gracq, A Dark Stranger

[wishfornight]

Resimleme denemesi 👩‍🎨📚🖌️

Sirte Kıyısı - Julien Gracq

Tatar Çölü - Dino Buzzati

Dağların Adamı Barnabo - Dino Buzzati

[accesaucinemainvisible]

Accès au cinéma invisible vous donne rendez-vous, ce mercredi 18 octobre à 20h 11 rue des Olivettes (Nantes), pour découvrir la plus belle adaptation au cinéma de l'écrivain Julien Gracq, Rendez-vous à Bray, sorti au cinéma en 1971.

L’auteur florentais est réputé difficile à transcrire sur grand écran : grande densité narrative, paysages flous et sensibilité à fleur de peau.

C’est André Delvaux, réalisateur belge adepte du surréalisme et développant un style de mise en scène qualifié de réalisme magique, qui va se lancer dans cette adaptation.

Delvaux est un féru de littérature, ayant à ce moment déjà adapté plusieurs fois au cinéma Johan Daisne (Un homme, un train avec Yves Montand en 1968), il continuera en 1983 avec Suzanne Lilar (Benvenuta avec Fanny Ardant) puis Marguerite Yourcenar en 1988 (L’Œuvre au noir avec Sami Frey).

En adaptant la courte nouvelle Le roi Cophueta tiré du recueil La presqu’île (Éditions Corti, 1970), Delvaux s'empare à la fois de l'univers restitué par Gracq, mais aussi de sa sensibilité. Il transpose son goût pour le cinéma à une œuvre pleinement littéraire. Avec le jeu d’Anna Karina et Matthieu Carrière, il réussit alors à transmettre aux spectatrices et spectateurs le mystère dont Gracq avait le secret.

En cela, Rendez-vous à Bray est autant un hommage au pouvoir de la littérature qu'à celui du cinéma. Le film fait la jonction entre ces deux pratiques pour devenir une œuvre à part entière encore trop méconnue en France, récompensée du prestigieux prix Louis-Delluc à sa sortie en 1971.

Projection gratuite à Pol-n, 11 rue des Olivettes (Nantes), à 20h le 18 octobre 2023.

[surrealistnyc]

Out now: Great Liberty, a new translation of prose poems by Julien Gracq from Wakefield Press.