From Manuscrits de guerre to Les Terres du couchant From soldier to warrior

The two recently uncovered unpublished works (Manuscrits de guerre and Les Terres du couchant) show both the crucial importance for Gracq of finding poetic ways to express the unheard-of experience of war, and the importance of giving an account of the issues that were linked to them, between defining the status of the event, ethical requirements, and discovering a new sensoriality and heroic desire.