The Shape of a City AUTH-11824295 and history as well as

and history as well as architecture and art

Author: Iolanthe Woulff

for what she thought would be a short stay

it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it

Publisher: Yen on

The Shape of a City AUTH-11824295 and history as well asA literary travel essay on the city of Nantes by the great 20th century French novelist, essayist, critic and geographer, Julien Gracq. The most original book of Julien Gracq's later output is about Nantes. It begins with a quotation from Baudelaire that Gracq repeats and distorts: "The shape of a city, as we all know, changes more quickly than the mortal heart." Gracq's later work, set provocatively in verifiable land and cityscapes, seems profoundly