The Narrow Waters

Fiction. In fluid, associative prose, Julien Gracq navigates again--this time in memory--the magical Evre and the terrain through which it coursed in his youth. THE NARROW WATERS is a synaptic meditation on Beginning and Ending whose inquiries and visions flow, and sometimes cascade, through a landscape of phantoms, flora, and fairy tale. Born in 1910 at Saint-Florent-le-Veil, where he lives today, Julien Gracq is one of France's eminent postwar writers. His oeuvre includes essays, criticism, journalism, and novels.