What to say about this hilarious work? it combines all the genres you "sellotape" literally in your seat (or in your sack) and frees you only the last page. This book is shocking poetry, history, humanism, tragedy, love, humor, melancholy, bankruptcy and hope. It invites to tears as well as laughter and you continues long lonptemps ... after you've closed. A huge congratulations to the translator. His work borders on genius! And what of the author!