En 2015, Thomas Clerc a écrit Intérieur, un essai romanesque, pour lequel l’auteur revendique l’héritage de Georges Perec./\In 2015, Thomas Clerc wrote Intérieur, a novel essay, for which the author claims the legacy of Georges Perec.
En 2014, les éditions José Corti ont édité Les terres du couchant, un récit inédit de Julien Gracq rédigé entre le Le Rivage des Syrtes (1951) et Un balcon en forêt (1958), mais qu’il ne considérait pas achevée /\ In 2014, Editions José Corti published Les terres du couchant, an unpublished story of Julien Gracq written between Le Rivage des Syrtes (1951) and Un balcon en forêt (1958) that he considered as uncompleted.
« Description d’Olonne » is a little book by Jean-Christophe Bailly, which was published in 1992 by Editions Christian Bourgois, and was reissued in 2010 by the same publisher. This book is the careful and sensitive description, imbued with a certain nostalgia, of an imaginary city, Olonne, located on a river estuary bottom, near the Atlantic coast.…
Florent Chavouet, Manabe Shima, ©Éditions Philippe Picquier, 2010 Tokyo Sanpo and Manabe Shima, are actually at the intersection of comics, travel guides and travelogues. The maps of Tokyo and of the island of Manabe Shima that Florent Chavouet proposes in his two books are directly inspired by the geographic reality of of these places in…
Carte de Tendre de François Chauveau dans Clélie, Histoire romaine, première partie de Madeleine de Scudéry, Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1654, © BnF La Carte de Tendre is a map of an imaginary country called Tendre, imagined by Madeleine de Scudéry in her novel Clélie, histoire romaine, published in 10 volumes from 1654 to 1660. This…
In the main work of Marcel Proust « In Search of Lost Time« , geography holds a prime position. It is not a descriptive geography, neither a geography with a scientific purpose nor exactly anchored on the reality, but a geography born from the imagination of the author where reality is closely intertwined with his imagination. According to…
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