Le livre de l'ânesse de Balaam, de David Jones, Traduction, notes et introduction critique

The poetic sequence called 'The book of Balaam's Ass' was only published after David Jones's death. It is indeed riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies, but of the kind that can hardly be overcome. In a nutshell it is about the loss of grace, both in the later stage of the Great War (from the Somme offensive onwards) and in a postwar world in which the author feels all sense of the numinous has been erased.