Clean lamb

In my entire life, I have kissed only one mouth, caressed only one body. Why did a thirteen-year-old boy give himself so easily to the embrace of a thirty-two-year-old man? I don't know. But today I know that I have experienced moments of infinite happiness, and nothing: neither expulsion, nor the devastating oblivion of my blood relatives, nothing will make me regret these moments of pure love. What do they know about purity? You have to be thirteen to understand this.* * *The novel tells – on behalf of a teenager – about the love story of a 13-year-old boy and his teacher. There is no moralizing, no accusation, no panic in it. The reader is introduced to a world of passion and love,…

Published in 2000, the novel was met with almost total silence in France by the press, paralyzed by the taboo subject. Only the prestigious Le Monde dared to print a review:
It must have taken courage to choose the theme of a love story between a teenager and an adult as the theme of his first novel, at a time when the just condemnation of pedophilia and the unacceptable restrictions imposed on adult children encompassed everything, including the ambiguity of adolescence and the mystery of certain incredible encounters, certain desired and unforgettable initiations. It also took talent to succeed in telling a story on this topic from the first attempt. Frank Warzak possesses this courage and this talent. The text is captivating and you read it without being able to stop.
Jossian Savigneau, Le Monde

In today's democratic societies, there is an undoubted and fundamental interest in the rights of the child, and undemocratic regimes are eager to speculate on them. In these discourses, children's voices are usually not heard. This work is a bold attempt to hear the child - his expectations, desires and experience of the consequences. F. Varzhak wanted to both calm the deafening panic of adults and lift the veil of hypocritical silence, to which he himself was forced as a child. The result is a kind, sincere, therapeutic text.