The mistake of the soldier, would defeat ... or is this obedience? This short story features three characters: a mountaineer emaciated Yiddish translator (much like the author ...), a former Nazi criminal and fille.Le drama takes shape during an unlikely encounter in a hostel Dolomites.Sans unveiling of the outcome, let's just say that the Word (Yiddish in this case) plays a key role. As written in the bone, "the damage the soldier" is a perfect synthesis of the literary qualities of Erri De Luca: Construction picked and relentless, choice of words of great precision up the blueprint, creating characters from progressives.Profitons-keys to congratulate the translator. The themes dear to the author can be found here: language, chosen as Yiddish or preserved as the Neapolitan, guilt and choice, affiliation ... and Erri De Luca to offer us, in addition, a touching evocation the girl, who assumes having such a father the day his guilt is proved him father who becomes obsessed with Kabbalah before choosing death, when it believes retrouvé.Les pages devoted to family stays in Capri us refer to the other books of the author. Revenge of the torturer is the language (the word "EMET", "truth"), whose Erri De Luca reaffirms the powers here.