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Michel Butor: Changing Track (Calder): Michel Butor [2017] paperback NATUR Jemisin sharply examines modern societyOn a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Leon Delmont begins to mull over his past and question the decisions he has made about his future. These musings together with his impressions of the unfolding scenery, conjectures about his fellow passengers and some recurring leitmotifs form the basis of a riveting narrative that provides a psychological case study of an everyman and subtly illustrates the onset of the