Gracq, Julien

Gracq, Julien (zhOOlyăN' gräk) [key], 1910–, French novelist, whose real name is Louis Poirier. Strongly influenced by surrealism and German Romanticism, Gracq's novels are highly allusive and syntactically complex treatments of evil and the quest for redemption. Among his many works are the novels The Castle of Argol (1938, tr. 1951) and The Opposing Shore (1951, tr. 1986) and Reading Writing (1980, tr. 2007), reflections on literature.

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