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Two twins, Jean and Paul, form a brother and sister pair so close that others call them Jean-Paul. But Jean wants to break this chain and tries to get married. Paul manages to thwart this plan. Through multiple adventures and numerous characters, the novel outlines the great theme of the human couple.
“It is the same body embraced by its double, the same face that reveals its full face and at the same time its profile,… both persons together enclosed in a mutual denial of everything that is not the other.” Two twins, Jean and Paul, form a fraternal couple so united that others call him Jean-Paul. But Jean wants to break this chain and tries to get married. Paul achieves to cancel this plan. Desperate, Jean leaves alone for the “honeymoon” in Venice. Paul tries to follow him and completes an initiation journey around the world. Through multiple adventures and numerous persons – such as uncle Alexander with the scandalous life – the novel outlines the great theme of the human couple.
This book was published with the support of the Aid Program for Publishers of the French Institute of Greece (French Embassy in Greece)
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Michel Tournier
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