4 Novels by Tony Duvert
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Overview: Tony Duvert was a French writer born in 1945. Polemist and champion of the rights of the children to have a right to their own body and sexuality, on which he published two controversial books of essays, Good Sex Illustrated (1974), L’Enfant au Masculin (1980), though these themes greatly shape his novels. He received the Prix Médicis in 1973 for his novel Paysage du Fantasie (published in America by Grove in 1976 as Strange Landscape). And in 1978, he published with the Éditions Fata Morgana, two works of prose poetry and short texts: District and Les Petits Métiers. Duvert died in 2008.
Genre: MM Fiction
Strange Landscape (1975)
The setting of this novel is an ancient chateau located in a fog-bound region, possibly Brittany, complete with a forbidden cellar in which hang seven bodies, all victims of horrible sexual assaults. The chatelaine is a sinister doctor and her elderly husband, aided by a depraved young henchman, Marco. The inmates in this strange castle are a gang of boys ranging in age from eight to fourteen, rounded up from various city slums and peasant hovels, and purchased from their families for the price of a fishing boat or the side of a pig. The boys are well fed and clothed and allowed every freedom, but on certain afternoons and evenings they must entertain the highly respected gentlemen who have paid well for the privilige of their company.
Diary of an Innocent (first published in French 1976)
Now in English (2010), Duvert’s shocking novel about a sexual adventurer among a tribe of adolescent boys in Northern Africa.
"I’d find it amusing if, in a few centuries, the only thing that our descendents condescend to retain of our artistic production, the only thing in which they’ll see worlds to admire, to penetrate, the only thing that they’ll show off as precious in immense museums after having flushed down the toilet all our acknowledged masterpieces, the only thing that will give them nostalgia and love for us will be our porn."–from Diary of an Innocent
Exiled from the prestigious French literary circles that had adored him in the 1970s, novelist Tony Duvert’s life ended in anonymity. In 2008, nineteen years after his last book was published, Duvert’s lifeless body was discovered in the small village of Thoré-la-Rochette, where he had been living a life of total seclusion.Now for the first time, Duvert’s most highly crafted novel is available in English. Poetic, brutally frank, and outright shocking, Diary of an Innocent recounts the risky experiences of a sexual adventurer among a tribe of adolescent boys in an imaginary setting that suggests North Africa. More reverie than narrative, Duvert’s Diary presents a cascading series of portraits of the narrator’s adolescent sexual partners and their culture, and ends with a fanciful yet rigorous construction of a reverse world in which marginal sexualities have become the norm. Written with gusto and infused with a luminous bitterness, this novel is more unsettling to readers today than it was to its first audience when published in French in 1976. In his openly declared war on society, Duvert presents a worldview that offers no easy moral code and no false narrative solution of redemption. And yet no reader will remain untouched by the book’s dazzling language, stinging wit, devotion to matters of the heart, and terse condemnation of today’s society.
A Silver Ring in the Ear (1982) translated into English for the first time by Edouard
Tony Duvert has just written his first crime novel. As expected, this is not a classic crime: the inspector is Julien Sorel and the Commissioner Mrs. Renal. But, as is customary on the other hand, almost all the characters are suspects, and it is a fact that they constitute a pretty pile of turpitudes. Except Marc, of course, who is eight and who is a little monster of innocence. Laughter here has strange resonances.
When Jonathan Died (1978)
Like so many novels, this book is the story of a love affair. What is less usual is that Jonathan, an artist, is almost thirty when the story starts, while Serge is a boy of eight. Jonathan had got to know Serge and his mother Barbara in Paris the previous year . Tired of the city and confused by the stress of this relationship, Jonathan shut himself away in a remote village. But his retreat is disturbed when Barbara needs someone to look after Serge for the summer while she travels abroad. Like all lovers, Jonathan and Serge create their own microcosm of domestic and erotic ritual, but theirs is a world that shatters on contact with the surrounding society.
Tony Duvert was respected in France for both fiction and essays, but the uncompromising motif that pervades his work has tended to barred him from reaching English readers. GMP first published this book in English. "His cool and matter-of-fact portrayal of a sensitive theme is a welcome alternative to the hysteria surrounding the age taboo in the English-speaking countries."
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Some of these novels were converted to ebook for the first time, and one was translated to English for the first time. These are rare offerings.
By the same author:
Good Sex Illustrated by Tony Duvert (1973, 2007)
