Very good texts, others are less so, but is it not the common lot of a collection? Although the whole is a very good level, in reading this book, one is faced with a major flaw for which the artist was able to see on stage or on the television screen: The lack. Indeed, The texts of Raymond Devos without DEVOS texts are only made of finely assembled words, of course expertly crafted sentences, but without life conferred their "verve Raymond" - this posthumous pardon for familiarity -.