Carnets du grand chemin

FIRST EDITION on publishing paper.

"These travel, work, and reading notes are dedicated to places, works, and the craftsmanship of creators. Rarely more than a page long, they are written with a keen and, I would 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 sensing effort or artifice. Sometimes a little haughty, Gracq is forgiven his arrogance by the modest meticulousness with which he crafts each sentence. He is, in literature, an artisan-lord, and perhaps the last of his kind." François Nourissier, Le Figaro Magazine.