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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 ...
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.
Balcony in the forest. by. Gracq, Julien, 1910-2007. Publication date. 1987. Topics. World War, 1939-1945. Publisher. New York : Columbia University Press.
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...
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.
Balcony in the Forest is a strange, elusive novel. Is Grange an unrealistic dreamer who takes refuge from the realities of war in the dream forests of childhood fairy tales? Or is he tapping into some primal force or existential plane that transcends the pettiness of human history?
In the Ardennes Forest on the Belgian border the French guns point north-east, awaiting the German onslaught. One reinforced-concrete blockhouse in the heart of the forest is manned, this winter...
