Without saying too much to let the reader finds that the author will bring, the story evokes, in the strongest sense, a war and practices that without this being said, we associate the atrocities the Second World War.
However, the story is always sober, simple, well away from story telling, but it is the human being in all its atrocity is revealed. How men without stories, far from any political or ideological concern, they are encouraged to participate in the task of executioner? How perverted fear humans? How to survive where it is not provided through the negation accepted even claimed his humanity? What difference does it generates situations of rejection that can go to the extreme? How we care for a supposed peace he favors oblivion and the disappearance of his conscience? What is the price of happiness of a community that refuses to accept his story?
These are questions tackled the strong book by Philippe Claudel, leading the reader with ease from one page to another, telling a priori the story of a man and a village in a remote countryside. But soon we understand that through this microcosm is all of humanity that is committed, it is we who are concerned.
More easily affordable than The Kindly which one can not help thinking, Brodeck's Report is not less strong and worth a look for any good man anxious not to cross the fine line that could make it, without necessarily noticing account, an executioner.
