The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair, brilliant in its narrative invention and startling in its imagery, belongs to the romantic French tradition of Les Enfants Terribles and Le Grand Meaulnes, and resembles no other work in recent British fiction.
'The Dreamers' is about a young American student who comes to Paris in 1968. Obsessed with film, he becomes involved with two fellow cineastes. Cocooned in their apartment, the three of them push themselves further until the violence in the streets invades their lives with violent consequences.