GRACQ Julien. Lot n° 170

The Shore of the Syrtes. Corti, 1951. In-8 with large margins, paperback. First edition. One of the first 40 copies on Rives, with an autograph letter signed by Julien Gracq to Jean-Luc Mercié, a real unpublished page of Le Rivage des Syrtes (envelope preserved) : ... "This restarting of the story, as imperceptible and as striking in its beginnings as the first tremor of a hull sliding into the sea, occupied my mind when I planned the book. I would have liked it to have the majesty... of the first distant rumble of the storm Nothing can be explained quite so tonically about Cataclysms without the ambiguous, reptilian fascination that emanates from their approach and paralyzes resistances" ... Exceptional.