{"product_id":"great-liberty","title":"Great Liberty","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGreat Liberty\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJulien Gracq\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781939663894\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWakefield Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA previously untranslated gem of Surrealist prose poetry from the acclaimed French novelist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1941, Julien Gracq, newly released from a German prisoner-of-war camp, wrote a series of prose poems that would come to represent the only properly Surrealist writings in his oeuvre. Surrealism provided Gracq with a means of counteracting his disturbing wartime experiences; his newfound freedom inspired a new freedom of personal expression, and he gave the collection an appropriate title, \u003ci\u003eGreat Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e: \"In the occult dictionary of Surrealism, the true name of poetry is liberation.\" Gracq the poet rather than the novelist is at work here: Surrealist fireworks lace through bewitching modernist romance, fantasy, black humor and deadpan absurdism. A later, postwar section entitled \"The Habitable Earth\" presents Gracq as visionary traveler exploring Andes and Flanders and returning to the narrative impulse of his better-known fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulien Gracq\u003c\/b\u003e (1910-2007), born Louis Poirier, is known for such dreamlike novels as \u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Argol\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Dark Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Opposing Shore\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBalcony in the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e. He was close to the Surrealist movement, and André Breton in particular, to whom he devoted a critical study.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Great Liberty | Julien Gracq | Paperback | 9781939663894 | New | Poetry 1606051","offer_id":50676167573762,"sku":"1606051","price":29.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/715mfOOg2iL.jpg?v=1791353331","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/great-liberty","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}