The novel relocates real event from human action to natural and bodily change

Evidence

The story of Lieutenant Grange is nothing but the story of Anyman in a vacant moment whereof the true occurrences are the vast metamorphoses of nature (the turn of the seasons, the sullen erosion of rock to sand, the woodland murmurs of sprouting and decay), and the miniscule transformations within a single body — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 21

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 21
• XREF: connects to: Human activity has progressively remade all of reality including nature — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 348; The novel shows globalization’s inevitability narrated through evolutionary metaphor; Literary language’s mood can be carried over onto real, living things rather than arguments — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1840 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Literary language’s mood can be carried over onto real, living things rather than arguments #expands (0.70) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1840