SuitabookL'épingle de la reine
Robert Soulières
- Reading
- Try a few chapters together, pausing to unpack unfamiliar wordplay or visual effects. Check whether the shifting digressions are part of the fun for your reader before deciding whether to continue independently.
- Themes
- Child exploitation: Young children are exploited in an illicit balloon-making operation, which the knight brings to an end. The book treats this strongly critically.
- Comic digression and wordplay: The narrative uses many digressions, misunderstandings, anachronisms, invented words and graphic effects, which can eclipse the plot. These devices are prominent features, but their overall effect is described as a matter of taste rather than given a single judgement.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes young children being exploited in an illicit manufacturing operation.