A Balcony in the Forest
by Julien Gracq · first published 1997
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…Julien Gracq - the writing is really beautiful. Like every sentence is poetic and the descriptions often these very original metaphors. I read him for the first time immediately before the pandemic with A Balcony In the Forest, which is also great.
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