This is a book that begins in pain and ends in pain, but the journey from the beginning to the end does not take a straight path. The book opens in a French school yard where a boy has just been hit in the chest with a snowball and faints. His sister is brought in and what becomes clear is that the snowball has been packed with a rock. The thrower is an effeminate boy who becomes the object of desire of his victim. Thus […]
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau