In the form of an (auto) biography of a strange character who aged thirty years over a period of three centuries of life and changed once sexual identity, the author proposes a philosophical tale that sometimes evokes Candide Voltaire, bearing many considerations on the evolution of the world, gender differences, Eastern and Western lifestyles, Elizabethan and Victorian eras, literature and poetry. It reveals a tendency to hyperbole and extravagant descriptions Rabelaisiennes, unreal, almost fantastic ... that highlight in broad strokes about a social and moral criticism, particularly on the issue of sexual identity reduced to an absurd game of appearances than random ... The story is also based on a continuous distortion of space and time (travel many times that stigmatizes a time that does not pass ...) facilitating stills and especially vivid descriptions they translate internal psychological movements of the author. At the end, there lived the present moment as an extreme contingency, that of being a woman and having children, that of the publication of his book, that of the still unfinished culmination of his quest: "Life and a lover! " which is known to be, essentially literary. And then there was mainly "the attraction to the surface of the water, the reflections in the black water of the mind, where things float to a depth such that they are unrecognizable ...".