Refreshing apocalypse A martial scene from Les Terres du couchant as condensation of reminiscence and Gracquian essence

The dense passage from Les Terres du couchant presenting the nighttime fire at the castle of Armagh appeared to me as a condensation of reminiscences and of Gracquian essence. Julien Gracq’s readings, his own war memories, and the great constants of his imagination are all found there.