A Reason and a Season
Lycanthrope Press
2005

In A Reason and a Season, Professor Kevin Boileau engages the reader in a penetrating and trenchant exploration into the dangers of intense romantic love.  This is ostensibly a love story, but a deeper reading exposes the
sado-masochistic psychological dynamics in which lovers all too often engage.  By the end of the story, our received understanding of love is both unsettled and de-constructed with a pointillism that we rarely see in works of this genre.  The novel is richly philosophical, drawing from the ideas of such theorists as the Marquis de Sade, Nietzsche, Foucault, and especially Jean-Paul Sartre.  What is at stake is the gaze of the lover, and Boileau challenges us to test our own narcissism in a provocative and stylish fashion.  Although imbued with complex psychological and philosophical challenge, the story is filled with cutting humor, scintillating dialogue, and meticulous organization.  It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in exploring his or her Jungian shadow, as well as the bourgeois underbelly that Moliere illuminated once upon a time.

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