The crazy one

It's difficult, while reading "The Madman," not to recall the story of the gentle boy Zéza in "My Sweet Orange Tree" and "Let's Wake the Sun," and not to empathize with him, his attitudes, and his decisions as he grew into a young man of twenty. Zéza, or "Zay," never relinquished the glow of his personal dreams, never ceasing his search for meaning in life, carving out his own adventures in a worl...