After the first pages, once accustomed to a little chopped style Patrick Deville and flashbacks system (to and from the last years of his life and the major stages of its existence), I got carried away by this gifted hero (doctor, explorer, entrepreneur, agricultural ...), always curious, always insatiable. For this human adventure in Vietnam Switzerland via Berlin and Paris: a discoverer of life as one could live up to the middle of the twentieth century.
I mentioned at the beginning of this post a little chopped style Deville, but knows how to make the sentence longer and slower to evoke the people, places and fighting. The style of Deville is also irony, allusions and anachronisms that slides quickly to surprise the attentive reader, as "black and gray that mimics fairly well dictator Chaplin."
Go ahead, discover the life of the man known in France, a man to be admired and we regret to see older and move towards an end, while scrolling in the background of the great film history.
