Radicais livres (LXX)

Pompe le Mousse (1982)

 

"The novel tells the story of two young women – Alice and her sister Juliette – who get booted out of Catholic school and meander the world. They first hitchhike to Paris, which they reach on May 10, 1968, and go straight to the barricades in the Latin Quarter. There, they meet 'Guy Retord' (i.e., Debord), 'Gianfranco Spaghetti' (i.e., Sanguinetti) and 'Raoul van Houten' (i.e., Vaneigem) – the theoricians of a mysterious 'Internationale de Sisyphe'. The cast of characters grows to include a perverted Italian magnate, his deviant brother who drank from the fountain of youth, a depraved Jesuit priest, a deserter from the 19th century and more"