Used book – The Echo of the Caves, Pierre Davy, Yannick Robert

A joyful and unparalleled little treatise for understanding, while having a lot of fun, the role of words in a sentence, the purpose of grammatical rules, and the beauty of language.

A classic that received the 15-17 year-old prize at the Brive Book Fair in 2003, featuring an enthusiastic preface by Yves Coppens.

Indeed, it didn't take him long to discover that by marrying these new sounds with his "ou," his "i," and other "a" sounds, he was opening up an infinite field of combinations that soon made him dizzy. He was close to panic when he articulated an unimaginable "keskimariv."

One day, Sapiens becomes aware of the limitations of the miserable "wroumpf" he uses to communicate with his tribe, and decides to invent language... From his first vocalizations to the development of the subjunctive, including the invention of prepositions and word families, Pierre Davy revisits the entire French grammar, as well as the link between language and thought, in this irresistible little book.