The last night

Arnold, the boy who clearly exhibits all the characteristics of a hero according to Emmanuel Bove's novelistic perspective, and in one of the dark rooms of a shabby inn in the Montmartre neighborhood in the eighteenth arrondissement of Paris, and he is in perfect health, torn by all kinds of crises, and looks out over the alleys 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 find a place among people. This means is controlling suicidal tricks. It is not easy to leave Emmanuel Bove's world, for stories are like a dense forest, its trees intertwined, its worlds strange and frightening, and you only come out having borne many scratches on your body. On the last night, Bove plants 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 of his sad smile, which suddenly decides to die. The hammer of cruelty may succeed in standing before 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... perhaps the last night.