SOLVED. Short Novel. Some boys found that their neighbor had a beautiful spiral stairs, and the leader of the group decides to destroy it. Because in his view doing this is a way to create something new. [s]

[Luis]

Some guy read to me a short novel, it was 3 years ago or so but it feel like Kafka.
Some boys found that their neighbor had a beautiful spiral stairs, and the leader of the group decides to destroy it. Because in his view doing this is a way to create something new.
Does it rings a bell to anyone?

[Becca]

The Destructors by Graham Greene? A gang of boys destroy a beautiful old house that includes a spiral staircase, and contains this line:
"Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the seriousness of creators—and destruction is after all a form of creation."

[Luis]

Wow, yes! That is! Thank you a lot Becca!