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The Narrow Waters ( French: Les Eaux étroites) is a 1976 essay collection by the French writer Julien Gracq. The topic of the book is Èvre, a left tributary of the river Loire, located close to where the author grew up. The book was published by José Corti.
- Julien Gracq
- 1976
The Warrenpoint ambush, also known as the Narrow Water ambush, the Warrenpoint massacre or the Narrow Water massacre, was a guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 27 August 1979.
- 27 August 1979
27. Aug. 2018 · 18 British soldiers died in the Narrow Water bomb, 39 years ago today. How did it affect the killers?
The narrow waters of the Channel were considered too dangerous for major warships until the Normandy Landings with the exception, for the German Kriegsmarine, of the Channel Dash (Operation Cerberus) in February 1942, and this required the support of the Luftwaffe in Operation Thunderbolt.
In fluid prose, Julien Gracq navigates-in memory-the magical Evre and the terrain through which it coursed in his youth. "The Narrow Waters" is a synaptic meditation on Begining and Ending whose inquiries and visions flow, and sometimes cascade.
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The Narrow Waters. Julien Gracq, one of France’s most senior and respected writers, provides a living bridge to the era of Proust and Alain-Fournier, and in his slim book The Narrow Waters (Turtle Point) Gracq explores a theme favoured by both of those writers: the mysterious power of memory.
Scylla and Charybdis, in Greek mythology, two immortal and irresistible monsters who beset the narrow waters traversed by the hero Odysseus in his wanderings described in Homer’s Odyssey, Book XII. They were later localized in the Strait of Messina.
