LITERARY BACK TO SCHOOL – “A Teenager in Love” by Robin Josserand was published in August 2024 by Mercure de France
Ivanka, a contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommends “Un adolescent amoureux” by Robin Josserand, published on August 22, 2024 by Éditions Mercure de France.
His favorite quote:
My first time would be such a drunkenness that in truth I think I could not bear it. Touching a boy is something marvelous and extraordinary. I deliberately and stubbornly waste the best years of my life. These are already surrounded by an unbearable melancholy. But it is stronger than me, I can do nothing against my cowardice. Nor against this strange love.
Why this book?
Because this book is about what it’s like to experience a homosexual desire in a provincial town in the early 2000s.Because it also describes what it’s like to be 17, what it does to the body and mind, how it is necessary to find detours to bring one’s fantasies to life.Because it brings together the pathetic and the beautiful, humor and sadness, decadence and the ideal.Because the emotions the narrator feels are universal, similar to all adolescent loves, with the strength of desire felt at that age.Because this book says how fiction, or rather autofiction, can modify reality to come and repair it, where it is born(…) - 20minutes
