Jean-Claude Fournier

Jean-claude Fournier was born in a small industrial French town during the war. The stories he tells us in his novels are partly autobiographical and are about his childhood and his teenage years in the sixties, when France was still trying to keep what remained of its colonial empire in Algeria and contraception largely ignored. In this background, teenagers cannot enjoy free and safe sex since girls are afraid of getting pregnant. Male characters dream of visiting other countries like Sweden or England where the pill is available and abortion legal. In the early sixities, the sexual revolution of 68, which will change a lot of things is yet to come and the wild bunch of this trilogy tend to boast of imaginary sexual feats. but at the same time dream of finding a girl they could fall in love with. The main character of these stories will end up living in england and falling in love with an English girl, while the latin quarter is burning and the students, among other things, demand the right to spend the nights with the girls in the dorms of Nanterre faculty.