Educational Fiction

The fairy tales that our children hear are the very stories that lay the foundation for their creativity and success. These are the stories that they reference their experiences back to. these are also the stories that they teach your grandchildren.

A story about a young boy who tries to be liked by everyone. However he has a problem, Everything he speaks is spoken in rhyme which means that it is very hard for people to understand him and he gets a little annoyed. He hopes that there will be at least one person out there that would be nice to him.

Le ton de l'ouvrage est vif, voire lapidaire, le style particulièrement cru et chatoyant. Pierre Louÿs use volontiers d'ironie pour évoquer les amours viles des jeunes filles perverses, et cette relative distanciation lui permet de faire fi de toute censure morale (inceste, pédophilie). De fait, on est loin du raffinement précieux des Chansons de Bilitis par exemple, et le Manuel de civilité est sans doute l'œuvre la plus subversive de Louÿs, véritable attaque en règle contre le puritanisme bourgeois de la Belle Époque.