After reading this book you quickly raises the question why is it a novel and not a try? One suspects the pages, especially since the author gives the reason in a chapter. This book is a lucid, courageous, moving, concise, Jean d'Ormesson briefly summarize this successful feat of major scientific theories that explain the world but it also tells the story of men and thought that shape over centuries. What impressed me is when he mentions the famous physicist Planck wall behind this theory, the limit beyond which life remains a mystery and is beyond comprehension. Jean d'Ormesson is defined as agnostic it leaves little room for major religions even if it refers to characters that compose them, he refers to God often, Old looking impassive all this human restlessness. Death is the major theme of his study since he speaks of life and if all the text is a questioning, a search for meaning, is felt by the wonder of the author towards life than death n ' Perhaps not an end and we feel dawn in him this hope that calm "our fears and distractions." I enjoyed the serene look and the way he has to indulge, this lucidity that animates, since we are all faced with death reminds us that we are equal before it. When in one of the last chapters, he cites references texts, he wonders if his book is good and yes M Ormesson, in my case, your book helped me in my thinking and reassured me . The writing of this book is that of a man who has the courage to raise his own fears and questions as an academician who wrote a scholarly text and devoid of emotions. Food for thought, this quote from Voltaire "The world embarrasses me, and I can not think that this clock exists and has developed a watchmaker."
