Boire l’horizon : l’essai méditerranéen selon Jacques Lacarrière

Jacques Lacarrière was Lawrence Durrell’s friend and they shared a passion for Mediterranean countries, espacially Greece and Egypt. Lacarrière apprehended spaces by walking, and his texts–his essay, L’Été Grec, as well as his translations from Hérodote and Pausanias—are shaped by this bodily relationship to Mediterranean lands. This essay will explore Lacarrière’s immanent style as a mode of description of Mediterranean lands that can be compared to Durrell’s, Albert Camus’ and Herbert Zbigniew’s own empiric writing, but remains singular, since it is based on sensual and sensitive experiences.