Oct 5, 2025 6:10 AM
(English version: Class Trip: A Novel)
A timid child is afraid of everything during a school trip, and indeed, something looms.
The mystery in this short novel isn't really the point. Rather, that precise point in time is: there is a tormented time between childhood and teenage years, and there is set this story. Boyhood is not far, and the fear of the many unknowns ahead guides very hesitant steps.
I can't tell if it revived forgotten childhood memories or if it rewrote them. Yet, I found it all to be true: the constant fear, the guilt born out of the belief one can be blamed for everything bad happening around, the anxious desire to please, the hope for a crisis (anything to stop the constant unease), the fascination turned into desire, the constant daydreaming, the porous frontier with reality - reality contaminates dreams rather than the other way, up until dreams become a way to tell reality apart from the lies.
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