Christophe Honoré's Impossible Book for Children

Christophe Honoré, born in 1970, publishes 'Le livre pour enfant' with Éditions de l'Olivier. The book is described as the author's impossible book, a composite work that combines fragments of a children's book that would be the impossible of youth literature, an autobiography of his ten-year-old self, and the exact reproduction of the shooting diary of his film adaptation of Georges Bataille's 'Ma mère', had he had time to write one. Honoré, known for a dozen children's books that, like those of Christophe Donner or Guillaume Le Touze, aim to demystify the genre by introducing themes such as AIDS, death, homosexuality, homoparentality, and violence against children, also has a body of work for adults in literature, cinema, and theater, primarily focused on the intrusion of violence into childhood. The book includes a pleasant satire of the mediatization of writers, magnificent pages on the fictional evidence of adolescence, and general considerations on literature, cinema, and the figure of the 'homosexual narrator'. The work is falsely simple and perfectly multiple, characteristic of an author who offers youth books for adults and adult books for youth.