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The Shape of a City

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Translator
  
Ingeborg M. Kohn

Published in English
  
2005

Originally published
  
1985

Page count
  
213

ISBN
  
9782714301062


Publication date
  
1985

Pages
  
213

Author
  
Julien Gracq

Publisher
  
José Corti

Published in english
  
2005

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Julien Gracq books, Other books

The Shape of a City (French: La Forme d'une ville) is a 1985 book by the French writer Julien Gracq. It is a portrait of Nantes, the city where Gracq grew up, in the form of memories, anecdotes, reflections and dreamlike descriptions. The title comes from a quotation by Charles Baudelaire: "The shape of a city, as we all know, changes more quickly than the mortal heart". An English translation by Ingeborg M. Kohn was published in 2005.

Reception

In 2007, Thomas McGonigle described the book for Los Angeles Times as "a model for how to write about one’s home place[.] ... It should be required reading for anyone setting out to describe their home place."

References

The Shape of a City Wikipedia