strange novel about a near-stranger who takes us unprepared into a world more real than ours. A world where statues grow like plants. With their proliferation, their rules, their manners and customs in a logic inherited from the surrealist universe. Cross shadows Gracq, Magritte. For a lot Bee compagnonné with the Surrealists and his secret existence in Bordeaux will not really been revealed when 1982 when Bernard Noël this novel published in 1982. The cult statuary gardens are an obscure and strange object that marks permanently literature. Bee speaks of a "waking dream" which was seized and he would simply transcribed in literature. But this world, where gardeners patiently planted statues they alone know daydreams, is a closed world that exists outside of our own. His whole life is based on trade in statues. Light and chaos interweave it. This book delivers us from the stone oracles. It is our understanding of ourselves. "I thought I had done the work of a madman" Bee said later, it is not the work of an LED
