{"product_id":"the-shape-of-a-city-paperback","title":"The Shape of a City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulien Gracq\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulien Gracq, the most important writer in France, is also the only living writer whose complete works appear in a volume of the prestigious \u003ci\u003ePleiades\u003c\/i\u003e editions. The most original of his later works is this book about Nantes, which is Gracq's personal and profound response to Proust's synthesis of memory, reverie, and realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work begins with a quote from Baudelaire: \"The shape of a city, as we all know, changes more quickly than the mortal heart.\" The author writes of a child's experience of the hierarchy of urban spaces: the radial avenues walked during school recreation periods, the districts between the axes, and the relationship to Nantes of those who lived there, including Breton and Rimbaud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulien Gracq (1910-2007), born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, was one of the greatest French writers of the twentieth century. His work included essays, criticism, fiction and journalism. He won but refused the Prix Goncourt in 1951 for his novel \u003ci\u003eLe Rivage des Syrtes\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Opposing Shore\u003c\/i\u003e). This retiring and misunderstood figure said he wrote \"to settle a score with expression itself, to give form, stability, precision to things that are vague in the mind.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 11, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50372470669549,"sku":"9781885586391","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/the-shape-of-a-city-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}