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Article: Julien Gracq 4: references et presences litteraires.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2006
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Julien Gracq 4: references et presences litteraires. Ed. by PATRICK MAROT. (Revue des Lettres Modernes) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2004. 280 pp. 23 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91073-3.
One striking, and sometimes irritating, feature of Julien Gracq is his passionate attachment to a certain type of literature, to the exclusion of other art forms. His aristocratic disdain for the vulgarities of everyday life in a decadent civilization led him to pay little attention to cinema and music (except in the rather literary case of Wagner). His partiality does not stop there: as the editor of this volume points out, antiquity and the Middle Ages seldom provide literary ...