Eleven years in prison is quite a punishment, especially when you've done nothing but be born.
Adrien is a man broken by his childhood in boarding school.
His parents locked him up near Paris to be able to dance quietly at Castel.
In his prison, Adrien cried every night like his little comrades, in a frozen dormitory, and if he read a book under the sheets, the guard dragged him by the hair, picked him up by the ears, beat him in an icy shower or forced him to kneel on a metal ruler, carrying dictionaries at arm's length.
And that's how you become a writer and a journalist.
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