5/24/2023 0 Comments The opposing shore by julien gracqHe taught as Louis Poirier and wrote as Julien Gracq, a name that combined his favorite Stendhal character, Julien Sorel, and the Roman Gracchus brothers. Following the war and his release, he became a geography and history teacher at a lycée in Paris, where he remained for more than twenty years. In 1940, as a lieutenant in the French army, Gracq was captured by the Germans and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Silesia. His first book, Au Château d’Argol ( The Castle of Argol, 1938) was praised by Breton as the first surrealist novel. An excellent student and a voracious reader, he studied in Paris in the early 1930s, where he encountered the work of André Breton and the surrealists. Julien Gracq (1910–2007) was born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, a small village in western France.
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