Review · Singulars
Love amid the autumn books
An autumn literary round-up reads the French Boys of Love through social constraint, wandering and the endurance of love.
- Credited to
- Patricia de Figueiredo
- Publication
- Singulars
- Source date
- Page dateline · 2 October 2020; body also prints 2 September
- Published language
- French
- This page
- English source guide
Works discussed
Original English editorial guide to the identified source. Critical judgments and reported recollections remain attributed; the complete original stays with its publisher.
One novel in a literary-season selection
Patricia de Figueiredo places Les Garçons de l’amour in a four-book literary-season round-up. Her Rabihavi section follows the lovers’ departure, insecurity and repeated movement, reading the novel as a challenge to patriarchal authority and intolerance. The force of the relationship between Jamil and Naji is the centre of her appreciation. Source 1
The article explicitly credits Christophe Balaÿ’s translation from Persian. Its byline area prints 2 October 2020, while a sentence in the body says 2 September. Both labels are retained, and the round-up is treated as one contribution rather than two separately published reviews. Source 1
Sources & credits
- Singulars · Love amid the autumn books
Singulars culture round-up; conflicting printed September/October dates are retained. One Rabihavi section among four authors; favourable judgments are the reviewer’s.