A Balcony in the Forest
8.35 GEL
- ავტორი: Julien Gracq,
- Year of publication: 2021
- Translator: Lali Unapkoshvili
- Category: FICTION
- ISBN: 978-9941-9728-5-0
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A Balcony in the Forest 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 of France. 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.
