Edgar Wibeau, seventeen years old, has died on Christmas Eve in an unfortunate accident involving electricity. His father, who left the family when Edgard was f

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Edgar, a seventeen-year-old "model youth," fed up with conformity, drops out and runs away to Berlin to pursue the things he has always wanted to do