Transcendent. 2

I have not dared to put 5 stars to this book, I have not read enough in my life, no "classic" of the French or foreign literature.
However I use the transcendent qualifier for this book, because beyond the story itself, it made me think about many other topics destiny, purpose of life, atheism , agnosticism, the possibility of a god or something like that.
As for the story itself, I find it beautifully told, these men are worlds apart, came to die in this stinking hole called trench in the name of a settlement account that exceeds, in which we give the name of patriotism to dress a legal envelope which he does not possess; and how to ignore the Love with a capital "A", of course Mathilde's love for his "blueberry", but also that of the whore for her pimp, where one of a man for his wife and children ; that Love which gives them the strength to float, or survive for revenge, in this ocean of crap and injustice.L'Amour and Death, Eros and Thanatos, is not a good summary of the existence? But in between, the route is sometimes so painful that deserves to be told in memory of the lives that could have been, but have been sketched, the fault of bad luck, or more surely, to human stupidity.
In finality, a novel full of humanity to which Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film, with its background image yellow piss, only imperfectly tribute prefer him to Mr. Japrisot the book.