In short chapters we not follow step different characters who are at the front in the dry tranchées.Les sentences incisors which succeed despite the different characters give an incantatory form this book.
We see them in the mud, under the deluge of shells, supportive of each other, some go crazy .the scared that paralyzes (the passage of the battle, bayonet rifle ....), among the zombies notes that do not yet understand what these men they see them go but do not even see them, prisoners of everything they just vivre.Cette same generation that will soon join the ranks of the living dead .
(.... Night falls .it's getting froid.Les first are soon exhausted apparaitre.Une cluster of men walking lentement.La head basse.Sans parler.Ils stumble often because it is too tired to do not let hang their boots A handful of men .I the passer.On look like a people boue.On barely visible color of their uniforme.Juste of dried mud, partout.Sur face and clothing. beards 3 days .The look vide.Je we think they do not vus.Aucun us to salué.Aucun of even wrote us a hand signal or regard.Des ombres.Sales and courbées.Je look at them and I think they follow a hearse procession advance péniblement.Ils .The ghost walk, slow and sad, invisible behind the hearse of their dead companions .There is no military hi .The only thing that takes should be done, the only thing that would make sense, would be to sign their passage ....)
and then there was the licensee, happy man who for a time, small time, will be able to try to regain real life .... But it really can t? In any case he is condemned to return a few days later ....
And when he returns, all those voices and shouts echoing in his head, he tries to exorcise his Supreme manière.Hommage and hopeless to all his comrades, mostly dead.
This is only a novel but a powerful evocative power that we broye guts ... I could not help thinking back to my great uncle who buried six brothers and cousins which 2 of its own mains.Mon great grandfather, he had to die almost from the woman début.Sa received only one letter from the Front ... and his body never was found ...
