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Original Title:	The Holy Innocents
ISBN:	0571216269 (ISBN13: 9780571216260)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Isabelle, Théo, Matthew
Setting:	Paris,1968(France)
Literary Awards:	Authors' Club Best First Novel Award (1988)

The Dreamers

Gilbert Adair

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 3.56 | 2299 Users | 151 Reviews

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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 Théo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, an American student they have befriended, think only of immersing themselves in another, addictive form of hibernation: moviegoing at the Cinémathèque Française. 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 Cinémathèque's closure, Théo, 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 ints imagery, The Dreamers (now a 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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Title	:	The Dreamers
Author	:	Gilbert Adair
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	February 19th 2004 by Faber Faber (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Contemporary. LGBT. Cultural. France. European Literature. British Literature. Novels

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In my opinion, this book is a must-read classic, an absolutely wonderful piece of literature. It's my go-to when I'm feeling homesick for Paris. Not that the events that transpire here are the ones of your average Parisian day (and thank god) but the characters are exactly the type of wonderful looneys you can meet here. Their particular idiosyncrasies stick with you, and you'l find yourself getting nostalgic about them before the novel is finished. Prepare yourself to be shocked, disgusted, and

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Que reste-t-il de nos amours?Que reste-t-il de ces beaux jours?Une photo, vieille photoDe ma jeunesse.Que reste-t-il des billets doux,Des mois d' avril, des rendez-vous?Un souvenir qui me poursuit...... un souvenir qui me poursuit...... un souvenir qui me poursuit...... un souvenir qui me poursuit... Un disco incantato, tre ragazzi con una relazione morbosa, la Parigi rivoltosa del Maggio francese. Aggiungiamoci un'interminabile lista di citazioni di imperituri capolavori d'arte, musicali e

Gilbert Adair wrote The Holy Innocents a few years ago (which I haven't read). When Bertolucci wanted to film it, Adair wrote the screenplay and rewrote the novel as The Dreamers, although in an epilogue he explains that the book and film are deliberately different. Its a quick read (borderline novella), but twisted and interesting.The story is set in Paris in the riots of May 68 and concerns a young American student who befriends twins at an arthouse cinema they regularly attend. A knowledge of

What have movies, love and politics have in common? They are all dream factories. Illusions churning machines that promise adventure, companionship or a better future. And what better age to succumb to their magic than eighteen? What better place than Paris in spring? The Dreamers are Matthew, Theo and Isabelle, one American expatriate and a pair of French twins brough together by common worshipping in the dark halls of the Chaillot temple: Cinephilia, as it was practised here, in the very front

This novel is a finely made sandwich with a piece of rotten meat in the middle. Adair's prose is solid and beautifully crafted enough that it got me through even the most self serving, pompous parts of the story. I was all on board for the dreamy, incestuous threesome part of the book (which is much better than it sounds, trust me) but then suddenly the characters were eating cat food, spewing vomit at each other, before finally smearing poop on themselves like Indian war paint and I had to