Écrire La Mer : De L'antiquité À Nos Jours

This book is devoted to the sea, central subject in art as well as in literature. It gathers more than 100 writers and 130 literary extracts, from the Bible to Le Clézio, through Homer, Virgil, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Racine, Melville, Jules Verne, Proust, Garcia Lorca, Camus... A rich iconography including the great masters - from Brueghel and Le Lorrain to Turner, Signac or Munch - but also representations by less-known but equally remarkable artists.