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You may not have much luck... Grothendieck was notoriously private. IIRC, he officially withdrew every peer-reviewed mathematical manuscript during the late 80s. There are mimeographed copies floating through the halls of math departments in France, but I've never actually seen much of his work.

There's surely going to be a scramble over his estate.

Exactly, a lot of his work from the 80s ended up in a cupboard from the math department of Montpellier and was almost sent to trash during relocation to new buildings.

Here it is, in French, I don't think an English translation of the whole thing exists: http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle...

Thanks, I'll keep looking for some of it in English as my French is basic-to-nonexistant.

Moreover I find his writing style (having just read few paragraphs of this book) very advanced even although I'm French.

Some of it is here: http://www.fermentmagazine.org/rands/intro1.html

Edit: Sorry, I thought for some reason that you were looking for an English version. It hasn't been published, that I know of.