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GRACQ Julien (1910-2007) écrivain.
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GRACQ Julien (1910-2007) écrivain.
103 L.A.S. "Julien Gracq" or "J. Gracq" or "J.G.", Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez or Sion-sur-l'Océan (Vendée) and Paris [1970-2007], to Ariel DENIS| 120 pages in-8 or in-12, mostly on cards or on the back of illustrated postcards, numerous envelopes.
Important correspondence to a writer friend.
[Ariel DENIS (born 1945), novelist and essayist, published in 1978 a study on Julien Gracq in the collection "Poètes d'aujourd'hui" by Seghers (enlarged edition in 2003). A teacher in Angers, he often visited Gracq in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil. In these letters, Gracq talks about the books of both of them, about his extensive reading of contemporary and classical writers, and about his daily life with his older sister. We can only give a glimpse of this rich correspondence here]. July 29 [1969]. He has read Denis' two articles with "constant interest: I knew, moreover, from your memoir the quality of your critical work"| he approves of her wish to leave secondary education to enter research. "I am pleased that you have taken an interest in the Road, which I will no doubt publish in volume at the beginning of next year, along with two other much longer short stories of a rather different character... May 13 [1970?], thanking you for La Vie, "a very curious novel, with a tone that belongs to you - and it seems to me that this unsuccessful telescoping of life and literature, at the time of adolescence, if it had undoubtedly already been tackled, in a few books, had never constituted the subject, in such a direct and expressive way. This literary regurgitation - sometimes literal, which covers reality at every moment, without offering anything that would make it easier to grasp - is of a certain and new accuracy, and gives you a disenchanted, acute and rather bitter novel, the quality of which is not in doubt... June 15th [1976 ?]. Seghers wanted to publish a book on Gracq, so he first suggested Leutrat, who "had already written a little book on me, and edited the issue of L'Herne", and then gave Denis's name... November 12. "Your work seems to be progressing very quickly: I can only be proud to be such a source of inspiration! I don't think you doubt my curiosity either"... Remarks on political fiction and science fiction... May 16 [1978]. He has good feedback on the book, including from
Mandiargues... News about Michel Mitrani's Balcony in the Forest, presented at the Cannes Film Festival... July 28 [around 1970?], very disappointed by Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: "in this village saga, I can hardly see anything but the loquaciousness of an Arab storyteller. It would perhaps be amusing to listen to on a square in Marrakech"... [Early 1985]. The book for which he has the proofs [La Forme d'une ville] should appear in the spring. "But Corti's disappearance, in many ways, leaves a sensitive void for me"... July 29 [1986]. Meeting with
Ernst Jünger who "had just returned from scouring the forests of Sumatra for beetles and other bugs and seemed to be in excellent shape.
We visited Guérande together [...] and we were even filmed walking through the streets with an amateur camera. He gave me his amusing detective novel, Une rencontre dangereuse (a Paris that is both unreal and attractive at the time of the construction of the Eiffel Tower)"... July 18 [1988]. Praise for Une découverte, story: "Texts like this one are not only pleasant and lively, but invigorating: they make you believe that there is still a future for literature. I am touched that you have dedicated these passionate lines to me"... He is reticent about a tribute project: "I have no taste - to say the least - for tributes, centenaries, celebrations and other liturgies of literature, or rather of the republic of letters"... April 20 [1989], on the echoes of the publication of his works in the Pléiade| a survey among literature students "reveals that one student in five knows my name, and that of that number many believe me to have been dead for years. Vanity of reputations - and the power of the paperback!"... 22 November [1989]: he assures us that "the years bring their remedy - or their palliative - to separation, and that a time is coming when a society is being revived, with the dead who have been close to you, which is not certainly smiling, but peaceful and without sadness"... January 22 [1990]. He has read Lac by Echenoz: "amusing, and not without talent, especially in the images. But so gratuitous - and a little narrow in scope"... 31 December 1991. He will send it to her within a month. "I have read the proofs of Murat's book [Julien Gracq by Michel Murat] - interesting - which should be published at about the same time. I hope that you are working rigorously on clearing the way for this new novel of which you spoke to me. I am very curious about it.
103 L.A.S. "Julien Gracq" or "J. Gracq" or "J.G.", Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez or Sion-sur-l'Océan (Vendée) and Paris [1970-2007], to Ariel DENIS| 120 pages in-8 or in-12, mostly on cards or on the back of illustrated postcards, numerous envelopes.
Important correspondence to a writer friend.
[Ariel DENIS (born 1945), novelist and essayist, published in 1978 a study on Julien Gracq in the collection "Poètes d'aujourd'hui" by Seghers (enlarged edition in 2003). A teacher in Angers, he often visited Gracq in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil. In these letters, Gracq talks about the books of both of them, about his extensive reading of contemporary and classical writers, and about his daily life with his older sister. We can only give a glimpse of this rich correspondence here]. July 29 [1969]. He has read Denis' two articles with "constant interest: I knew, moreover, from your memoir the quality of your critical work"| he approves of her wish to leave secondary education to enter research. "I am pleased that you have taken an interest in the Road, which I will no doubt publish in volume at the beginning of next year, along with two other much longer short stories of a rather different character... May 13 [1970?], thanking you for La Vie, "a very curious novel, with a tone that belongs to you - and it seems to me that this unsuccessful telescoping of life and literature, at the time of adolescence, if it had undoubtedly already been tackled, in a few books, had never constituted the subject, in such a direct and expressive way. This literary regurgitation - sometimes literal, which covers reality at every moment, without offering anything that would make it easier to grasp - is of a certain and new accuracy, and gives you a disenchanted, acute and rather bitter novel, the quality of which is not in doubt... June 15th [1976 ?]. Seghers wanted to publish a book on Gracq, so he first suggested Leutrat, who "had already written a little book on me, and edited the issue of L'Herne", and then gave Denis's name... November 12. "Your work seems to be progressing very quickly: I can only be proud to be such a source of inspiration! I don't think you doubt my curiosity either"... Remarks on political fiction and science fiction... May 16 [1978]. He has good feedback on the book, including from
Mandiargues... News about Michel Mitrani's Balcony in the Forest, presented at the Cannes Film Festival... July 28 [around 1970?], very disappointed by Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: "in this village saga, I can hardly see anything but the loquaciousness of an Arab storyteller. It would perhaps be amusing to listen to on a square in Marrakech"... [Early 1985]. The book for which he has the proofs [La Forme d'une ville] should appear in the spring. "But Corti's disappearance, in many ways, leaves a sensitive void for me"... July 29 [1986]. Meeting with
Ernst Jünger who "had just returned from scouring the forests of Sumatra for beetles and other bugs and seemed to be in excellent shape.
We visited Guérande together [...] and we were even filmed walking through the streets with an amateur camera. He gave me his amusing detective novel, Une rencontre dangereuse (a Paris that is both unreal and attractive at the time of the construction of the Eiffel Tower)"... July 18 [1988]. Praise for Une découverte, story: "Texts like this one are not only pleasant and lively, but invigorating: they make you believe that there is still a future for literature. I am touched that you have dedicated these passionate lines to me"... He is reticent about a tribute project: "I have no taste - to say the least - for tributes, centenaries, celebrations and other liturgies of literature, or rather of the republic of letters"... April 20 [1989], on the echoes of the publication of his works in the Pléiade| a survey among literature students "reveals that one student in five knows my name, and that of that number many believe me to have been dead for years. Vanity of reputations - and the power of the paperback!"... 22 November [1989]: he assures us that "the years bring their remedy - or their palliative - to separation, and that a time is coming when a society is being revived, with the dead who have been close to you, which is not certainly smiling, but peaceful and without sadness"... January 22 [1990]. He has read Lac by Echenoz: "amusing, and not without talent, especially in the images. But so gratuitous - and a little narrow in scope"... 31 December 1991. He will send it to her within a month. "I have read the proofs of Murat's book [Julien Gracq by Michel Murat] - interesting - which should be published at about the same time. I hope that you are working rigorously on clearing the way for this new novel of which you spoke to me. I am very curious about it.