because I am former top athlete, I read by chance a writer unknown to me until then got down to athletics in general ..... it 99/100 leads to the large n Anything ..... there I got screwed like a blue: I thought laugh at Miss Coulon: nay, not for a moment .... analysis of rare finesse, relevant .... amazing for someone 24 years! Anthime arrived in his new place of residence, resulting in a jubilant description of "rednecks" supposed to welcome him .... I experienced this kind of thing, to be going to work one day in a village deep France .... and that's exactly that .... everything is bigotry, reductive vision of the indigenous, the wickedness of these, always (without knowing why) soured. Coulon joined there Houellebecq's description of the villagers of his grandmother who never accepts (in "map and territory") .... after the narrow life Anthime, stifled by Johanna pathological limit, in its obsession with absolute control .... Anthime, if allowed to die until the return of his sister (who plays, well, Thoreau, in "his" Walden, with his German Shepherd Dog) ... it restores Anthime, the courage to take control ..... and this is the only time the rub: the end of the book. Anthime issued for all contingencies, goes for a walk that leads, who knows where ... the other characters are forgotten, abandoned as Anthime ... and seems to take a different form of wandering ...
