After recounting his wise childhood in Bois-Colombes, the author of
The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
, moves on to the story of his adolescence and his entry into life.
She still suffers from living in a family that loves her but whose parents are torn apart in a traumatic trench warfare.
She begins to read the classics and writes poems.
She comes across a group of four cheeky high school students who have created a poetry magazine,
Strophes
, to which Jean Wahl and Michel Leiris will soon contribute...
Catherine was born under a lucky star, she has only one step to take and here she is admitted into the invigorating cenacle.
The group is led by a certain Patrick, handsome and sentimental, with whom she is in love but who will be content to give her literary advice.
She is 16, he is 18. As Daniel T, another musketeer of poetry, seems more enterprising, she becomes his lover.
What isn't revealed right away is that this Daniel is called Templon and...
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