[In Gemini] Jean and Paul are twins who grow up to be perfect opposites in mind and manner. Paul believes that the symbiosis they enjoyed as infants … is a paradise they should live in forever, while Jean is tormented by the way everyone mistakes each of them for the other, and he decides to run away from his brother. Most of the novel features Paul's pursuit of Jean around the world, through places that support his theory that mankind has an innate love of mirror images (Venice reflected in its canals; Japan's islands encapsulated in its gardens; Berlin split in two). But before the flight and pursuit begin another narrator is given the floor: the twins' eccentric uncle, the manager of a garbage dump and a homosexual dandy, who delivers orations about the dump as "negative image" of society and about his own narcissistic tastes. Narcissism, in fact...