Too independent for any school of etiquette and even less political chapel, Gracq detonated. It is in my opinion not the only but the best to transport the reader into novels or adventure is the time and space. Or you can appreciate the intoxicating searched and feerique descriptions of nature and the soil has magic. Man is not always the most important personage of his books. It is the traveler who discovers the magic of the sites, the colors, the sounds that punctuate his quest. A castle in the forest depicts the slap of the french Army 39-40 in the top of a hill hidden in the forest. In strong militarize derisory, useless and vain or time elapsed. A path of knowledge and rediscovery of simple main things in life. With a flair for incomparable ectiture in the literature of the twentieth century.