Celebrated French novelist Julien Gracq's only book of poetry presented with 'The Road,' a contemporaneous piece of poetic prose, in a new translation by Alice Yang. Written over a twenty-year span, the dense, lyrical prose poems of ABOUNDING FREEDOM illuminate the hidden lives of places as they take us into the workings of the imagination itself. This collection opens a door onto the evolution of Gracq's work, from his early surrealist experiments to the more grounded evocations of land- and cityscapes that characterize his mature prose. Upon its original publication, Rene Char called ABOUNDING FREEDOM a 'miracle.' The present edition includes 'The Road,' a fragment of an unfinished novel that extends the narrative tendencies of Gracq's later poetry.
