Journal d'un corps

Pennac, Daniel2012

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Summary

In 1935, aged of 12 years old, the narrator decides to start a diary in which he'll write everyday, until the end of his life. As son of a First World War veteran, the young sickly boy has been educated by a living dead father despondent and paralysed by a shell shock (or combat fatigue) in the trenches but willing to give him a strong culture before death. That's how, as an orphan, the adolescent who saw eleven years of agony feels the need to control his fears and the urge to take notes in order to understand and conquer this external area of flesh, bones and blood. Too scholar and puny, the narrator will try until 87 years old, to train and analyse his organism until its proper alteration: "We are, until the end, our body's child. A confused child." An instrospective novel, with a singular perception and a skilfull narrative process.