Basically, Jean d'Ormesson considering the possibility of a novel worn by the style and speaking anything (referring to Flaubert and especially "Bouvard and Pecuchet.")
However, beyond the fixed idea, this reading reminded me of both erudition testing our philosophical classics like knew so well Jerphagnon Lucien, and adding the educational presentation of physics and cosmology (the "Micro" to "Cosmos" through temporal inflections thereunder) as popularized so the scientist Stephen Hawking.
But unlike Mr. Lucien Jerphagnon and Stephen Hawking, the book is not a test: this is a novel about nothing (like Flaubert dreamed of) and all (of Parmenides in Astrophysics) . This book reminded me a lot is "The Sea Customs" wish him the same success.