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Walter Benjamin said that every great work creates a genre or ends with it: these tiny lives seem to fulfill both movements in one. Through the eight chapters of him Michon embodies the figure of the biographed biographer, builds an autobiography based on the reconstruction of the lives of others: tiny lives of his grandparents, his classmates in a boarding school in the French province; of that orphan boy who, like a "failed Rimbaud", goes to Africa in search of a chimerical fortune. A wise and unrepeatable mix of genres creating a new genre, the discerning reader will appreciate how a whole area of ??today's French lyrics comes out of this small volume: the way Michon mixes exact doses of Flaubert, Rimbaud, Faulkner, Proust and Jean Genet to find a new tone, tender and dry at the same time, an extremely precise style made of minute combinations of information and invention, of memory and rewriting of memory. One of the indisputable classics of contemporary letters.