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The Opposing Shore Paperback - 1986

by Julien Gracq; Richard Howard (Translator)

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With four elegant and beautifully crafted novels Julien Gracq has established himself as one of France's premier postwar novelists. A mysterious and retiring figure, Gracq characteristically refused the Goncourt, France's most distinguished literary prize, when it was awarded to him in 1951 for this book. As the latest work in the Twentieth-Century Continental Fiction Series, Gracq'a masterpiece is now available for the first time in English.

Set in a fictitious Mediterranean port city, The Opposing Shore is the first-person account of a young aristocrat sent to observe the activities of a naval base. The fort lies at the country's border; at its feet is the bay of Syrtes. Across the bay is territory of the enemy who has, for three hundred years, been at war with the narrator's countrymen; the battle has become a complex, tacit game in which no actions are taken and no peace declared. As the narrator comes to understand, everything depends upon a boundary, unseen but certain, separating the two sides. Besides the narrator there are two other main characters, the dark and laconic captain of the base and a woman whose compex relations to both sides of the war brings the narator deeper into the story's web.

For many French readers The Opposing Shore (published as Le rivage des Syrtes ), with its theme of transgressions and boundaries, spoke to the issue of defeat and the desire to fail: a paticularly sensitive motif in postwar French literature. But there is nothing about the novel tying it either to France or to the 1950s; in fact, Gracq's novel, with its elaborate, richly detailed prose, will be of greater interest now than at any point in the last twenty years.

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  • Title The Opposing Shore
  • Author Julien Gracq; Richard Howard (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 213
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Publication date 1986-07-14
  • ISBN 9780231057899 / 023105789X
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.21 x 5.4 x 0.82 in (20.85 x 13.72 x 2.08 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Publishers Weekly, 08/14/1987, Page 0

About the author

Julien Gracq (the pseudonym of Louis Poirier) was born in 1910 in Saint-le-Vieil. His three other novels have appeared in English as A Dark Stranger, The Castle of Argol, and Balcony in the Forest.

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