The French Poet cum diplomat was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960. His representative work, The Expedition, which he completed during his stay in the Western Hill Taoist Temple, might have been a major factor. The poet created this great but "extremely obscure" epic by exercising his poetic genius in recording what he witnessed while traveling in the vast desert of northern China, integrating what he observed at the Western Hill Taoist Temple, and, particularly, weaving the stories he remembered from the military and historical nam...
