Frank Lanot, associate professor and novelist, invites us to the universe of Julien Gracq whose writing fascinates as much as it questions our perceptions. Gracq, novelist or essayist, seduces because he knows how to show the world around us. To describe, for him, is not a matter of the report or the minutes: in a dense, fleshy prose, full of sap, he invents the real, in the sense that he reveals it. Read At the Argol Castle or Carnets du Grand Chemin, it’s time to leave for an enchanted universe