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Enfant

Enfant

Literary Fiction

Jules Vallès, Douglas Parmee

Authors: Jules Vallès, Douglas Parmee
Print type: BOOK

Description:

"The Child tells the (autobiographical) tale of a young boy constantly scapegoated and abused, emotionally and physically, by his peasant mother and schoolteacher father, whose greatest concern is to improve their social status. But the young hero learns to stand up to his parents, even to love them, in time, and for all the intense pain the book registers it is anything but dreary. To the contrary, Valles's book is one of the funniest in French literature, a triumph of insubordinate comedy over the forces of order and the self-appointed defenders of decency."--Jacket.