París desaparece

the long version

Set in 1960s Paris, this novel is narrated in first person by a very young Mexican writer, almost a child, who is wonderstruck and enchanted with everything he is seeing and living through: with his strange relations with Sartre, with the painter who forges a Matisse, with his sensual aunt Adela, with the beautiful Alain who is accused of murder and becomes a transvestite, with Didi and Margot, with Jeanne who left for Amsterdam taking with her a photo of Tláloc, and with the Russian medium through whom a French gentleman expresses himself when he converses and argues with André Breton in the next life.