Jules and Jim Author:Henri-Pierre Roche As a novel, as a film, and as a concept of friendship and sexuality, the story of Jules, Jim, and the irrepressible Kate has become one of the most influential works of our time. The novel has become an unofficial Bible for European youth - and it is not difficult to see why. Jules comes from Austria to PAris, where he meets Jim. In the course o... more »f the novel they encounter forty women, but there is only one woman who can shake their lives. And it is Kate - wild, free, curiously innocent, who brings together and whimsically tears apart three people in love. Jules, Jim, and Kate come alive in a way that could be told only by such a man as Roche, who had lived their adventures and retained the youthfulness of heart to tell it with utter abandon.« less