From beginning to end, Prudhomme opens his written papers and boldly leaves them on the table, while the reader sits opposite him. When he shares Milan Kundera’s ace and the hitchhiking story as a couple’s love game in “Comic Loves” (translation: G. Haris, Estias edition, 2011) and when he plays Corman McCarthy and “Magalo passes” with a wild card.” His hero recalls Montesquieu’s saying “I never regretted that the hour of reading did not drive away” and, paraphrasing with “Roads”, once again confirms that in the case of writing there is no such regret that would not attract even with an hour of writing.

Prudhomme and his Ways demonstrate that technique, motivation, purpose, structure are satellites revolving around the only thing that ultimately remains in the reader’s memory: what is written. And this is exactly what those who choose to live other people’s lives write.