Prix Goncourt
1 appearances
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Edition 49 (1951) Declined
Julien Gracq
ジュリアン・グラック
Jurien Gurakku
Aliases:
Louis Poirier
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1910-07-27 （Saint-Florent-le-Vieil）
- Died
- 2007-12-22 （Angers） age 97
- Nationality
- フランス, French
- Languages
- French
- Residence History
- Saint-Florent-le-Vieil
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, critic, playwright, poet, teacher
- Active Years
- 1938-2002
- Memberships
- French Communist Party
- Influenced By
- André Breton
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée Henri-IV | — | — | baccalauréat | — | France |
| École Normale Supérieure | — | — | — | 1930年入学 | France |
| École libre des sciences politiques (Sciences Po.) | — | — | — | — | France |
Lycée Henri-IV
Degree:
baccalauréat
Country:
France
baccalauréat取得
École Normale Supérieure
Period:
1930年入学
Country:
France
École libre des sciences politiques (Sciences Po.)
Country:
France
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Prix Goncourt | The Opposing Shore | — | Académie Goncourt | 受賞したが辞退 |
Prix Goncourt
1951
Work:
The Opposing Shore
Organization:
Académie Goncourt
Result:
受賞したが辞退
Awards & Nominations
America Award in Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 13 (2006) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Castle of Argol
1938 novelFirst novel influenced by Surrealism.
dreamlike abstraction
A Dark Stranger
1945 novelThe Opposing Shore
1951 novelA novel of waiting set in an old fortress near the sea border.
waitingdeath of civilizations
Balcony in the Forest
1958 novelBibliography
- Au château d'Argol, 1938
- Un beau ténébreux, 1945
- Liberté grande, 1946
- Le Roi pêcheur, 1948
- André Breton, quelques aspects de l'écrivain, 1948
- La Littérature à l'estomac, 1949
- Le Rivage des Syrtes, 1951
- Prose pour l'Étrangère, 1952
- Penthésilée, 1954
- Un balcon en forêt, 1958
- Préférences, 1961
- Lettrines, 1967
- La Presqu'île, 1970
- Le Roi Cophetua, 1970
- Lettrines II, 1974
- Les Eaux Étroites, 1976
- En lisant en écrivant, 1980
- La Forme d'une ville, 1985
- Autour des sept collines, 1988
- Carnets du grand chemin, 1992
- Entretiens, 2002
- Les Terres du couchant, 2014
Adaptations
- Rendezvous at Bray (based on Le Roi Cophetua)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- dreamlike abstractionelegant stylerefined vocabulary
- Recurring Motifs
- Surrealism
Legacy
French writer close to Surrealism. Known for refusing the Prix Goncourt.
Trivia
- Won but refused the Prix Goncourt due to his criticism of literary prizes.
- Briefly joined the French Communist Party but left after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.