Used book – Poil de Carotte, Jules Renard

Even though Poil de Carotte cuts his cheeks to make them red, no one kisses him.

Mrs. Lepic doesn't love her youngest, red-haired son. "Not everyone can be an orphan," Poil de Carotte repeats to himself, and he shares his personal ideas, "so named because you have to keep them to yourself." Neither generosity nor sincerity pays off in the adult world. You have to be cunning.

Poil de Carotte's existence is a hell from which he only escapes through a cruel lucidity.

Jules Renard has written a masterpiece of irony, intelligence, and tenderness. "Anyone who has read such a work cannot forget it," states Robert Sabatier in comparison.

Foreword by Robert Sabatier.

Comments and notes by Michel Autrand.