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Julien Gracq Richard Howard A Balcony In The Forest (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Balcony in the Forest
- Publication Name
- A Balcony In The Forest
- Title
- A Balcony In The Forest
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1681371391
- EAN
- 9781681371399
- ISBN
- 9781681371399
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, War & Military, Literary
- Release Date
- 21/11/2017
- Release Year
- 2017
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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It is the fall of 1939, and Lieutenant Grange and his men are living in a chalet above a concrete bunker deep in the Ardennes forest, charged with defending the French-Belgian border against the Germans in a war that seems unreal, distant, and unlikely. Far more immediate is the earthy life of the forest itself and the deep sensations of childhood it recalls from Grange's memory. Ostensibly readying for war, Grange instead spends his time observing the change in seasons, falling in love with a young free-spirited widow named Mona, and contemplating the absurd stasis of his present condition. This novel of long takes, dream states, and little dramatic action culminates abruptly in battle, an event that is as much the real incursion of the German army into France as it is the sudden intrusion of death into the suspended disbelief of life. Richard Howard's skilled translation captures the fairy-tale delicacy and existential dread of this unusual, elusive novel (first published in 1959) by the supreme prose stylist Julian Gracq. Story Locale- France and Belgium
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681371391
ISBN-13
9781681371399
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239652279
Product Key Features
Book Title
Balcony in the Forest
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, War & Military, Literary
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq2613.R124b3513
Reviews
" Balcony in the Forest is not a 'war novel,' although it describes the experiences of Frenchmen in uniform during the early days of World War II. Julien Gracq has written a sensitive and analytical study of men enmeshed in a phony war--a war that would ultimately result in the tragic, dramatic fall of France.... The facile pen of the author is evident on every page, especially in the descriptive passages of the phantom forest, the seasonal landscape colors, and the beauty of nature in contrast with man's destructiveness in wartime. These descriptions sing in the exceptionally smooth translation by Richard Howard, who, like the writer Julien Gracq, reveals a poetic sense throughout this cogitative novel." --Max Bogart, The Saturday Review "A series of brilliantly written descriptions of the Forest of Ardennes, the winter of the 'phony war' and of what it is like to be a soldier in a blockhouse there, waiting for a war one does not really expect to come." -- Kirkus Reviews " Balcony in the Forest is a strange, elusive novel. Is Grange an unrealistic dreamer who takes refuge from the realities of war in the dream forests of childhood fairy tales? Or is he tapping into some primal force or existential plane that transcends the pettiness of human history?" -- Vertigo (blog) "The translation, by Mr. Richard Howard, is worthy of a book whose force depends almost entirely on the quality of its writing." -- The Times Literary Supplement "A most pleasing novel. Written in a prose that avoids all eccentricities and experiments, it moves rapidly and smoothly because each word seems exactly the one required." -- New York Herald Tribune "His precise, meticulous descriptions are entrancing. A work at once powerful and delicate." --Maurice Nadeau, Observateur "Only one writer could give expression to the venomous poetry of those months of watching and waiting, of waking dreams, and that was Julien Gracq." --Claude Roy, Libration "One of the very few first-class novels about the 1939 war that I have ever read." --Norman Shrapnel, The Guardian
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2017-024489
Dewey Decimal
843/.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
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