Carrot Top - a Contemporary Psychological Novel Still Relevant

This article aims to highlight both the relevance and the reception of Jules Renard's novel „Carrot Top” and the emotional impact the work generates on the audience in the reality of 2023. Despite portraying a rare occurrence in a civilized society, namely the persecution by the protagonist's own mother, this work finds numerous corresponding situations in contemporary social-historical reality. In 2023, we conducted a study on the current reception of this novel, and the results seem worthy of generalization, particularly for a public with relevance to children in Romania.