This book is an instance in which the whole community is mistaken in its apperception of reality, while an adolescent gets it right. In fact, he maintains that systematic doubt allows us to keep things in check. Without it, knowledge would have remained still from the past to eternity.

It's about Marcel, an adolescent with a precocious objectivity, sense of humor and determination. He sets out to show to the whole city in which he was born and lives that their traditional fears are baseless.

This book is an instance in which the whole community is mistaken in its apperception of reality, while an adolescent gets it right. In fact, he maintains that systematic doubt allows us to keep things in check. Without it, knowledge would have remained still from the past to eternity

This book is an instance in which the whole community is mistaken in its apperception of reality, while an adolescent gets it right. In fact, he maintains that systematic doubt allows us to keep things in check. Without it, knowledge would have remained still from the past to eternity.

Racial conflicts, more than ever, are in full swing and stir up human relationships. However, Bernard and Marie manage to change their nascent hatred to harmony, mutual discovery and love. To reach such positive outcome, they agree to talk about existential conditions ...

I often think that dream, taken to its broader sense, forms the backdrop of reality. This one, to start with, closely follows contours, appearances and uncertain aspects similar to dream evanescent characteristics, to its precarious and puzzling looks, giving, first, rise to hope, and then, with a reversal of fortune, showing a grimacing aspect of reality.

The moonlight filters the room. It is soothing. We would like the day, like the night star, to be discreet, subdued, conspicuous, but more stable, less exposed to the eclipse of a somber cloud...We would like people to have peaceful habits...We would like the world to offer less disconcerted aspects...However, reality doesn't often come close to this harmony of light and shadow; it rather bathes in a universe of troubling contrasts.