The book is about the (sexual) relationship between Roger Peyrefitte and a fourteen-year-old lyceum student. It is autobiographical; the boy in the book stands for Alain-Philippe Malagnac de Argens de Villele, whom the author fell in love with during the shooting of the movie 'Les amitiés particulières' in 1964. The relationship lasted to the death of Alain in the year 2000.
In 'Our love' we see a man-boy relationship, which is endangerd by the illness of the boy, the secrecy that must be kept towards the outside world, the beautiful boys the boy meets during his holiday, a fountain-pen, a loan of one hundred and fifty thousand francs and finally, the boy's insecurity. But Love survives in the end!
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Photograph: Alain-Philippe Malagnac
