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Title	:	The Dreamers
Author	:	Gilbert Adair
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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

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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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)

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Actual rating: 3.5This is another tough one for me to rate accurately; as I feel it all depends on my mood at the given time. I was dead-set on a full four stars this morning, having woken up after a fun night of familial bonding, but now find myself in a more apathetic mood on the long car ride home. Maybe this review will change somewhere down the line, once my mind shifts into a more passionately enthusiastic state, but for now, it shall remain to be said that this novel was average.Having

I had such high hopes for this book and was disappointed immensely. The movie is one of my favorites, so my expectations were high, though now I realize that the two differ so much, especially in the second half. This is one of those rare situations when the movie is so much better than the book. The plot takes place in Paris during student's uprising. The three main characters Henry, Theo and Isabelle isolate themselves in their own world of disturbing obsessions, games and sex in an empty

Cinema, Sex and PoliticsGilbert Adair was a Scottish writer, translator, critic and screenwriter, who lived in Paris from 1968 to 1980. However, Matthew, the chief protagonist in this novel set in the Paris of 1968 is an Italian-American from San Diego.Many of Henry James' characters left America to discover the traditional values and social structures of the Old World. In contrast, Matthew arrives at a time of revolutionary ferment. He feels as "gauche as an alien from another planet".

The first incarnation of what would become Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial film The Dreamers, for which Adair wrote the screenplay and then later reworked into a novel of the same name. So basically this was my third experience with this story--I've both watched the film and read the novel several times--and The Holy Innocents is certainly the least of the three, and there's no getting around the fact that in a lot of ways this feels like the first draft of the story. Its best moments

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



Očekivala sam više od ove knjige. S obzirom na sinopsis knjige, očekivala sam da će biti više prikazan incestalni odnos brata i sestre i Metjua koji se nekako nađe tu, a to je, kako se čini, nešto što je usputna radnja knjige. Psihološki profil junaka poprilično odsustvuje.Nakon što je završen opis incestalnog odnosa, knjiga se bavi događajima u Parizu 1968. Nekako mi to malo zbrda sdola pisano i objašnjeno, te se stvara zbrkana i nepotpuna slika onoga što se desilo.Kraj mi je bezveze. Nekako na