Imaginary Friends, Alison Lurie, Marie-Claude Peugeot

In her third novel, published in the United States in 1967, Alison Lurie stages a true intellectual comedy between two professors, Roger Zimmern, a young sociologist, and his elder, Professor McMann, who shows more reluctance than enthusiasm towards him. McMann draws Roger into his wake, with the aim of studying the human behavior of a small group of individuals. In Sophis, a town not far from this New York State campus, McMann and Zimmern meet a group of fanatics versed in spiritualism, the Seekers of Truth. A young woman, thanks to her mediumistic powers, allows them to make contact with a people from a planet named Varna. Do the sociologists believe in this announced existence? Brilliant sati