A young American writer keeps a notebook that records at one and the same time a series of events on the Greek island of Diblos in which he is deeply involved, and his attempts to transform these events into a novel. The author has written an afterword for this edition of his 1965 novel.
Notebook is a delightful and sad picture of the Hesitation Waltz of creation.
It has a fallen angel, the writer, for its hero-villain. I don't know of any book that deals so honestly with the sin of consciousness, and its island setting is a little paradise lost.