Great Liberty - Julien Gracq

A Previously Untranslated Gem Of Surrealist Prose Poetry From The Acclaimed French Novelistin 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, Great Liberty: 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.