Frequency 23, Souffier et etre meprise, was launched inside the 1977. The partnership between the writer and his girlfriend are at a low ebb (“We have identified an abundance of imbeciles,” he estimates this lady, “however, of all ones you are the stupidest.”) The household dynamic changes when on the Jouhandeau’s household will come Marc, this new six-year-dated kid of author’s girl, Celine. The kid could have been kept on earlier couple’s care and attention immediately after this new separation from Celine’s abusive marriage. No matter if Elise has actually a psychologically neutral length about man-never managing Marc when you look at the a sort, “grandmotherly” way-Marcel finds the fresh son a desire. “All the guy,” Jouhandeau writes, “is actually for me a Messiah; Marc are a great messiah exactly who I want to talk about and you can whom are my salvation.” In terms of Jouhandeau’s intimate activities, of the his 80s he’s got largely given up their issues which have boys, declaring one of the a “sort of physiological secret I have already been delivered out-of my sensuality.”
