Erudite and sensitive, author Michel Robin has earned the wisdom
that worldly experience of six decades confers on a reflective man.
But in Sixty Years Young, he goes back through time to confront the
child that he was and to embrace the ways in which that boy is
still who he is now. In the tradition of philosophers' and poets'
courageous childhood confessionals, yet with an honesty and clarity
all his own, he gives us a real narrative of childhood seen through
un-tinted glasses. Revisiting his boyhood becomes a quest for
truth. The truth of the man he has become. The wider truth of the
world as the boy saw it, the world that grew up around him. The
tales of his truths make for episodes at times delightful, at times
embarrassing, and always incisive. This is no safe stroll down
Memory Lane. The author relives the beauty and tyranny of being a
child. Young Michel commands fairness into his universe with toy
soldiers shared with the neighbor boy across the fence of social
divide. He lights matches to the housecat's whiskers. He pursues
his first love with a barrage of letters, and gets punished by the
school priest. He parries adult intervention with subterfuge or
flashes of contrition. Older Michel dissects his world - our world
- with the keen intransigence of the boy. It's a dialogue between
two selves. A protest against malice and hypocrisy. A hand held out
for love. An ode to life. It's also an evocation of Belgium in the
post-war years. There are tensions among family members around
issues of class and religion. Puritanism contends with fascination
for movies, fast cars, beautiful girls. People, events, beliefs all
loom into the lens, held in the same lucid gaze, by the boy and by
the man that boy has become. As if yesterday was still today.
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