This novella is an absolute masterpiece, to be at the forefront of world literature. An overwhelming simplicity. The narrator thirty years, but his life will end. It is a solitary, discreet. The others put forward in some way. It's all inside. He's in love, but he said nothing. Lise was friendly, but when love is revealed, that friendship suddenly be nothing. Is it possible? The man too takes time to understand. He will want to act, but he will ridiculous. He can not even pick up the crumbs, another went before him.