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Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the search for an unattainable and mysterious world between childhood and adulthood.
It's the 39th in Brooklyn, the Jewish neighborhood of New York. Sharing their last cigarette at the window, two cousins, Sammy Clayman and Joseph Kavalier, will share their dreams, fears, and hopes.
The motif that Nesvadba has already used in a science fiction context, the FALSIFICATION OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND, in "The Showdown with Doctor Dong" serves as a starting point for questioning the RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REVOLUTION AND SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.
At the center of the plot is a young woman, Siena, who lives in a dangerous and unstable environment marked by violence and conflicts between people eager for power and wealth.
The narrative time that Fowles writes about is the reign of Queen Victoria, a time of comfortable middle-class life in which religious postulates and scientific progress were believed in almost equal measure.