The advantage of this novel, inevitably, will not please everyone: the hype. The hero describes life in a rotten college, and forces the line to caricature, but worse! The daily at this is purely grotesque, in the literal sense (taste weird, the jester and caricature). This could be likened to a painting by Jerome Bosch, where we see a single picture a multitude of characters, all busy with different actions, all in motion. This taste for the grotesque admitted, reading this book is then alone, away from all likelihood (though? ...) Without any concern for realism. Then follows the anti-hero (loose, lazy, bored, bustles, and so on ...) in this college to court-like miracles. Students (either several choices possible) obese, dirty, violent, ignorant. They dealent, they smoke, they steal, they break. The list is long as your arm, and all ready to smile if you are receptive to what degree of exaggeration. Otherwise, this novel will be put off because the plot is rather thin and used as a pretext to spread incredible situations, and the hero is even evidence of malice and indifference to the fate of students in the chest, just like his colleagues. And if "foreign" Camus had been released from prison and became a teacher? It is finely written if you like the squeaky side of this novel, which is absolutely unpretentious. It has in any case not intended to denounce things, or even to make the change: the situation is so, like it or not, and the author is not using his novel to settle accounts ( or when the pen is not very virulent He claims nothing, it is obvious), which makes this work rather light. I had fun reading it, precisely because nothing is serious in this book. I compared this hero to that of Camus, because it demonstrated a great detachment: it does not undergo things while being actor to a minimum. It is quite disturbing: he seems to feel nothing. It describes, coldly and everything is ridiculous, because ... it's just ridiculous.