Every reader is a potential writer, and every writer is a reader in
actuality. Reading Writing is a subjective history of fiction and
poetry and a personal meditation on the links between literature and two
visual arts: painting and cinema. Gracq's poetics is founded upon the
basic acts of reading and writing and on the relationship between the
writer and his language.
This first English-language edition of En lisant en écrivant will mark
a turning point in the public reception of Julien Gracq.