[...] honest clear-sightedness, which quality is a compensatory gift to a child who has spent years observing, with satirical and unforgiving eyes, the hypocrisies and injustices of grown-ups; who has had, in order to survive, to learn watchfulness, which is the first qualification for a writer. The observation of their enemies, mother, father, authority figures, teaches these unhappy children how to dissemble or keep silent -- and see everything.