If it is a must book by Philippe Forest, it is this one. If you've never heard of it, just know that in this novel (yes, novel), Philippe Forest tells the illness and death of his 4 year old daughter, Pauline, suffering from bone cancer. It's hard, violent, emotional, just, but that's not all. Beyond personal history, Philippe Forest is a writer, university teacher of literature, and this gives an extra dimension to the book. It plunges back with interest in the poetry of Hugo and Mallarme, fathers face the loss of their child, it follows the intimate and universal loop that takes the story of Peter Pan by James Barrie in the Forest of life. Book about life, pain, death, Forest mixes realistic daily treatments to a philosophical reflection of what he is experiencing at caeur his family unit, but to society as well. The eternal child is a precious book, rare, smart, those that are carefully preserved to read here and there, some passages. A reading that can be completed by his essay "All children, except one."
