Name: L'été d'Helliconia
ISBN: 9782253071082

Brian Wilson Aldiss

L'été d'Helliconia

Abigaël Chevillard 

** spoiler alert **
           It's a really good book. 
At first, I couldn't make out where the author was guiding me, it was a pretty odd beginning which made sense at the end. That weird beginning of a piglet saving its life had the purpose to make Abel even more innocent because he started his life as an animal without any consciousness of the human habits, laws, and worries. 
Another weird thing was the "transformation" that I still do not understand. It was set there and although it was necessary to the author it was still pretty odd.
Those things are why I just rated this book 4 stars.

Nevertheless, it is still a really good book which makes us think about all our social conventions and human nature. The main thesis of this book is human violence... From the beginning until the end the main thing it is denouncing is that. We clearly understand it with the lasts chapters... When Clovis and Rufus and their wives are murdered for no reason...This moment when we find this out made me cry a lot! It was a pretty perturbating ending, but I couldn't find any better for what the author meant!
I also loved the place literature gets in this book. It is real praise of words and their power! That was the second message of the book: Words are the strongest weapons against human cruelty. I felt this.

So I really liked this book even though the beginning felt strange to me at first, it fastly became way more interesting with a lot of messages pretty important to me.

L'été d'Helliconia

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