Last night

Arnold, the boy who clearly exhibits all the characteristics of a hero according to Emmanuel Bove's novelistic perspective, and in one dark room in a shabby inn in the neighborhood of Montmartre in the eighteenth arrondissement of Paris, and he is in complete despair, torn by all kinds of crises, and looks out at the crowd from an isolated window. During a single and final night, dark and rainy, Arnold decides to close that window and try the last means to embrace heroism, to obtain a "place among people," and this means is controlling suicidal tricks. It is not easy to escape from Emmanuel Bove's world, for his novels are like a dense forest, its trees intertwined, and its worlds strange and frightening, and you only come out of it having been marked with many scratches on your body. On the last night, Bove implants more scratches in the human self. He stands before it as a judge with a hammer of cruelty and as a defendant with a charge, his charge being his sad smile that suddenly decides to die. The hammer of cruelty may succeed in standing against the will of that smile that desires death, but no smile in this world can stand in the face of cruelty. This is the lesson Emmanuel Bove wants to teach the world in one night... it may be the last night.