The Illusionist

Beschrijving

Even now, half a century after its first publication, it is hard not to be shocked by The Illusionsist – the erotically charged story of a lesbian affair between an adolescent French girl living in a small provincial town and her wealthy father’s thirty-five-year-old mistress. It’s a cold, brilliant, almost reptilian work. The fact that its author wrote it at the age of nineteen makes it all the more disconcerting. Even in the sex-obsessed media-world of the twenty-first century such precociousness can be unnerving.