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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 of France.
Balcony In The Forest is a slim novel that follows Lieutenant Grange and his men as they shelter in the Ardennes forest during World War II, awaiting the approach of enemy forces. The novel is often described as surrealist, but Gracq's style is closer to Woolf's modernism than Andre Breton, who apparently admired his first novel.
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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.
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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...
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.
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It is about solitude, about watching and waiting - and about love, the young lieutenant's devotion to Mona, the child-widow discovered like a sprite in the forest one rainy night, who, in this...
