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297 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1968
I am preparing a melancholy existence for him which could hardly displease him because he knows no other. I want him to like moonlight, fairy roses, the exotic types of nostalgia, the languors of Spring, fin-de-siècle neuroses � all things that I personally abhor, but which go down well in the present-day novel.
Don’t you know Morcol � the Subtle Shadowing specialist? The man who follows adulterous women and finds lost sheep. He has appeared in many novels under different names. A second Vidocq. A second Lecoq. As the saying goes: there are times when it’s ridiculous to fight against a shadow. He’ll find your Icarus for you.
Once we are free, don’t we have the same desires, the same needs? The same faculties? Don’t we have to obey the same necessities of life?