Gracq, a writer and geographer

Gracq, whose real name is Louis Poirier (1910-2007)
"It sums up beautifully the complex and often ambiguous art and geography. '
(Armand Frémont, 2005)
A writer and geographer draws its geographical culture to feed his work. It has first of all a specific vocabulary. Sometimes Gracq employs italic typography to highlight some of the technical terms familiar to the geographer. Questioned this approach, he says it means: "Here, I have no better word than the word scientist to express what I mean, I'm sorry." We found among many other geographical terms and emphasized: open field, podzol, nunatak, draille, Chott, gour, igarape, bluffs, adret, watergand, the acronym ZIP industrial port area, etc ...
  [Moins]