![]() ![]() But in Gracq's beautifully lyrical tale, everything happens on the emotional level as the reader participates in Simon's psychical journey which leads him through the harsh and uncompromising Brittany landscape, scene of his childhood vacations, into the mythological world of Tristan and Isolde. Little else "happens" - if one defines plot as Americans usually do. He returns that evening to the train station to meet her. A methodical man, Simon determines to spend the time driving along the Brittany coast and arranging for their journey. Simon is at the Brévenay train station in Brittany waiting for his lover, Irmgard, although she has warned him that her arrival at midday is "very unlikely." As expected, she is not on the train, and he has a whole afternoon to while away before the next one gets in that evening. ![]() ![]() Julien Gracq's short fiction The Peninsula is a deceptively simple work with regard to plot. Winner of the America Award for Literature The Peninsula Julien Gracq Translated from the French by Elizabeth Deshays Society into a slight tremolo of confusion and fright at least. Ramblings, Revelations, and all such ephemera as may appear necessary to bring Julien Gracq | The Peninsula | Green Integer Books Green Integer BooksĮssays, Manifestos, Statements, Speeches, Maxims, Epistles,ĭiaristic Jottings, Narratives, Natural histories, Poems, Plays, Performances, ![]()
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