{"product_id":"9781939663894","title":"Great Liberty","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Gracq, Julien\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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, 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 humour and deadpan absurdism. A later, postwar section entitled 'The Habitable Earth' presents Gracq as visionary traveller exploring Andes and Flanders and returning to the narrative impulse of his better-known fiction. Julien Gracq (1910–2007), born Louis Poirier, is known for such dreamlike novels as The Castle of Argol, A Dark Stranger, The Opposing Shore and Balcony in the Forest. He was close to the Surrealist movement, and André Breton in particular, to whom he devoted a critical study.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781939663894. Wakefield Press. pb. 168 pages. 1 b\/w ill. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.\u003cbr\u003eavailable\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43255169777821,"sku":"9781939663894","price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/1439\/9645\/files\/9781939663894.jpg?v=1784275652","url":"https:\/\/wholesale.manic.com.au\/products\/9781939663894","provider":"Books at Manic Wholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}