L' herbe haute

Synopsis: "To have everything, to know everything," thinks sixteen-year-old Étienne Arambour. Life is there, within his reach: women, unknown cities. Everything tempts him, but he doesn't know how to grasp what is offered to him. Clumsy and shy, he covets in turn Marie de Sataïz, little Marie-Lou, the limping girl: young women, both chaste and easy, whom he feels he doesn't deserve. They flee, evade him with indifference or flirtatiousness, and Étienne's impatience turns into despair. Life is there, but he doesn't know how to seize it. His love is met only with mockery. The day everything becomes easy, it's too late. Étienne is no longer a child; he takes without passion what he so desired. Around Étienne evolve bizarre characters: old Sataïz, the One-Armed Man, Eulalie – silent or chatty, drunkards, dreamers, immoral people, who ultimately create a complex drama, by force of considering life as a dream or a game."

This second novel by Jean Forton is both a drama and a farce. It features the tough and dense style that we admired in La Fuite.

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