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The Dreamers

by Gilbert Adair - £8.99  Faber and Faber (2004)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780571216260 | ISBN 10: 0571216269

Gilbert Adair's novel is set in Paris in the Spring of 1968. The city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Theo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, and American student they have befriended, think only of immersing themselves in another, addictive form of hibernation: moviegoing at the Cinematheque Francaise. Night after night, they take their place beside their fellow cinephiles in the very front row of the stalls and feast insatiably off the images that flicker across the vast white screen. Denied their nightly 'fix' when the French government suddenly orders the Cinematheque's closure, Theo, Isabelle and Matthew gradually withdraw into a hermetically sealed world of their own creation, an airless universe of obsessive private games, ordeals, humiliations and sexual jousting which finds them shedding their clothes and their inhibitions with equal abandon. A vertiginous free fall interrupted only, and tragically, when the real world outside their shuttered apartment succeeds at last in encroaching on their delirium. The study of a triangular relationship whose perverse eroticism contrives nevertheless to conserve its own bruised purity, brilliant in its narrative invention and startling in its imagery, 'The Dreamers' (now a mjor film by Bernardo Bertolucci) belongs to the romantic French tradition of 'Les Enfants Terribles' and 'Le Grand Meaulnes' and resembles no other work in recent British fiction.

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