French fiction -- 20th century

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"Un été des années soixante. Une petite ville française au bord d'un lac, près de la Suisse. Victor Chmara a 18 ans et se cache parce qu'il a peur. D'étranges personnages hantent cette ville d'eau, comme ce docteur que l'on surnomme La Reine Astrid ... Mais il y a surtout Yvonne…

In a quiet French resort town near the Swiss border, the relationships between young Victor Chmara, actress Yvonne Jacquet, and homosexual physician René Meinthe become the lens through which the social unrest of French society is viewed.

On an unamed Island that can only be Ceylon, the traveller checks into his 117th rented room, abandoned by his lover, poor and feverish. A book on Indian insects deepens his morbid fascination with the crawling inhabitants of the room-''a pretty world of killers''- barely distin…