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Valéry Larbaud was an outstanding French writer of the early 20th century whose works are included in the compulsory school curriculum, on whom scholarly monographs are written, and whose archival materials and diaries are published. During his short creative life, Larbaud managed to achieve a great deal, not only as a translator and man of letters. He himself wrote only on a whim, which did not prevent Gaston Gallimard, André Gide, and Marcel Proust from praising his texts. “Children” is an outstanding example of modernist prose, in which the author abandons the “old framework of intrigue,” offering the reader short stories about the lives of children whose upbringing coincided with anxious and beautiful times.