Road Journals

ORIGINAL EDITION. One of 150 numbered copies on Ingres blanc from Lana paper mills, the only large-format paper.

"These travel, work, and reading notes are dedicated to places, works, and the craftsmanship of creators. Rarely longer than a page, they are written with a keen and, dare I say, majestic sense of style. Julien Gracq indeed possesses all the qualities and ambitions of a grand tone: precision, breadth, musicality, irony, familiarity. Each piece is composed like a goldsmith setting a stone or a singer holding a note, without ever feeling the effort or artifice. Sometimes a little haughty, Gracq is forgiven for his superb by the modest meticulousness with which he works each sentence. He is, in literature, a master craftsman, and perhaps the last of his kind." François Nourissier, Le Figaro Magazine.