This is another novel by the writer Julien Gracq, whose novel The Balcony in the Forest, I read earlier this month. This is apparently the novel that made him famous, and it makes sense because it’s much richer, complex, satisfying, and frustrating to read than that one. This novel, if you read the wikipedia page on it, is a “waiting novel” and that reminds me of several other similar novels both ahead of this one and after it. So the situation of the novel is that […]