What a novel! Pierre Drieu La Rochelle is a great novelist. The presentation of mimetic desire quality is remarkably painted. Violence is also mimetic that has its loophole in the sacrifice of the scapegoat. Everything in this novel magnifies the brilliant theory of René Girard. In "The Man on horseback," Shakespearean accents are striking. The recall Henri Bergson surprising ease of the reader "(...) the men of action are enough men of thought and men of thought are worth only because of the embryo man of action that they carry with them. "
Drieu La Rochelle is close to the style of Cervantes, Stendhal in this masterpiece written by an exalted spirit, sometimes feverish, doubting everything, intriguing to appearance, misleading sometimes superficiality (including the Jesuits and their commitment in life) .We enchanted spring, critical thinking after such a lively reading. This book was recommended to me. I thank the good counselor.
"We must reach out to its enemies, it is not good to wait. Everything must be done openly and quickly."
