Used book – The French Mouse Who Loved German Bread: On Animals Evoked by Writers from Saint Augustine to Bernard Pivot, Michel Wallon

"When I read autobiographical texts by writers, I always enjoy seeing – fleetingly or not – one or more animals appear. This is how I encountered a donkey in Marguerite Yourcenar's work, a canary in André Gide's, a ferret in Michel Tournier's, three wolves in Georges Simenon's, and mice in Ernst Jünger's and Bernard Pivot's. The small book you hold in your hands consists of forty-six accounts of such encounters. I hope you'll get along well with my little menagerie." Michel Wallon. Do animals think? Are they intelligent? Do they have a soul? In his own subtly humorous way, Michel Wallon has tried to answer these three questions that have plagued humanity since the dawn of time... "Amazing! Funny! Clever!" Bernard Pivot (about the text dedicated to him)