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Balcony in the Forest (French: Un balcon en forêt) is a 1958 novel by the French writer Julien Gracq. It tells the story of a French lieutenant, Grange, who is assigned to a concrete antitank blockhouse in the forest of the Ardennes in the autumn of 1939, where he waits with three enlisted men for World War II to reach that section ...
Kindle $10.99. Rate this book. A Balcony in the Forest. Julien Gracq, Richard Howard (Translator) 4.02. 832 ratings105 reviews. In the Ardennes Forest on the Belgian border the French guns point north-east, awaiting the German onslaught.
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One day, while out walking in the forest, Grange sees a girl wandering around. He follows her and soon discovers that she is a young woman, not a girl. When he meets her, he learns that she knows perfectly well who he is and has been following him. She is a widow called Mona. She had come to that part of the country as she had a shadow on her ...
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?
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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...
About Balcony in the Forest. 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.
28. Juni 2023 · Balcony in the forest by Julien Gracq. Publication date 1959-01-01 Publisher G. Braziller Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023- ...
