Dark sun: "What is the point of learning if we are going to die? This time, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt sets his plot in ancient Egypt. The reader is totally immersed in this particular culture that tries to tame death thanks to the talent of the author. He analytically dissects the power of religion and resorts to explanations more appropriate than the fairy tale of alleged miracles during Genesis as, for example, for the plagues that would have been inflicted by Moses. The footnotes are always pure relish, I learned a lot about mummification and the different forms of writing. And if everything we did in our lives turned out to be useless is one of the very pertinent questions of this novel. And the intermezzos (Noam nowadays) are finally becoming captivating.
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