Roads and Paths in Julien Gracq’s Works A Mythical and Sentimental Landscape

As an essential motif of Gracq’s fictional world, roads and paths span all the writer’s works. The roads of France, recurring image in the fragments repositories where they act as a sort of exploded travel diary, must be understood as a continuity and dialogue with the roads that navigate through his novels: Although they are part of another poetic logic and temporal pacing, their sentimental and symbolical landscape is comparable, and they retain the imprint of the crucible of (his) fictions.