Brest, de brume et de feu

A novel in appearance but in truth a memoir, both testimony and tribute to his own people, Brest, de brume et de feu opens a cycle of three “city portraits”: Paris and Rome will follow. In the manner of a geographer-Gracq — a writer Le Guillou admires above all others — Philippe Le Guillou wrote these texts “teaching, writing, desiring and loving,” in order to describe the kaleidoscope “bound to the miracle of Brest, to its magnetism, to its skies, to the play of showers and clear spells […]; its neutral, almost extinguished palette, yes, this greyness that is not quite one, this hidden sun asking only to break through, this rain too, akin to a supple, salty, almost enveloping drizzle — this unique and luminous grey, this grace of Brest that only the faithful and the fervent know how to capture.”