Nearly 70 years after the novels publication and 10 years after Reves death
He must have written that novel when he was quite young then! Either that, or he lived to a very old age.
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Written at the age of 24. Interesting character, this author:
Reve himself was a controversial character. Born into a communist family in 1923, he rejected his parents ideology, becoming a devout, if unorthodox, Catholic openly homosexual, and combining eroticism and religion in his writings.
In 1966, he was prosecuted for blasphemy
, after he published writings
in which the narrator has sex with God, incarnated as a donkey.
Don't give me songs
Give me something to sing about