With a sharp eye, she observes his contemporaries and in his own bubble transformed with an incisive pen what she saw, to depict scenes from ordinary life which abound pettiness, malice, contention, harassment, tyranny, cowardice, meanness, cruelty, contempt.
The tone without squeaking is not less bite and this villainies succession eventually make reading a bit heavy. We look, we expect a sign of goodness, kindness, generosity, kindness, tenderness. In vain. Rather to read discontinuously at the risk of nausea.
"Sadism is a great remedy against indifference, but what sadness in my heart."