Julien Gracq

>>9251192
rivage des syrtes is 10/10, its like taking drugs

only thing i can sort of compare it to is GR

read balcony in a forest after, it's less baroque in its style but still good

>>9251200
dubs don't lie, thanks dude

I speak decent French (I can read Houellebecq in the original, so about genre fiction level). How difficult is Gracq to read in French? Est-ce que vous m'avez bien compris anon?

>>9251211
rivage des syrtes is pretty purple in terms of prose with archaic words and like i said, it's baroque but great, you'll probably need a dictionary. there were words i had never heard but i loved the book so much, it might be my favorite novel.

balcony in a forest is almost more realist and straight forward in terms of style but gracq denies ever being a realist and i agree with him. haven't read anything else but his war diaries sound good

Il est tres tard monsieur l'observateur.

>>9251296
ah shit I assumed your gender, you have a female prose style

What are the war diaries about? (other than assumably being diaries about war)

>>9251662
no im just lazy and doing other things, war diaries are his time as a prisoner of war