Gracq’s Manuscrits de guerre allow a rereading of Un Balcon en forêt. They highlight the precision and accuracy of the military experience that forms the basis for the novel: the story of an officer without orders, of an army whose constitutive link dissolves, of a defeat without a future.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques