The splendid early essays from the books "Noces" ("Nuptials") and "L'Envers et l'endroit" ("Betwixt and Between") celebrate the pact between sun and sea and the physical and spiritual freedoms it fosters.
Perhaps the Kaplan-Goldhammer team will turn their attention to the essays of "L'Envers et l'endroit" and "Noces, " books about a country that no longer exists by one of the 20th century's most enduring writers.