Henri Bosco, primarily known as a novelist although he also produced poetry and some musical compositions, characterized himself aptly by stating that, as a writer, he did not belong to his generation. Indeed, his inspiration, his concerns, and the texture of his writings are different from those of most twentieth-century French writers who have won wide public attention and whose innovative techniques, ideological statements, and rhetorical strategies have mobilized the interest of the critics. His career spanned a period in the course of which surrealism, existentialism, structuralism, the nouveau roman, and other new perspectives created ferment by questioning traditional literary norms, redefining them, and opening the way to experimentation. Bosco, however, deliberately stayed away from the new trends, and in a century when such writers as André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and others were blazing new trails thematically and formally...