Le Père Porcher

400 pages

French language

Published March 8, 2002

ISBN:
978-2-84172-223-5
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4 stars (12 reviews)

La nuit du père Porcher… Neige, rouges-gorges, chorales et sapins décorés… Mais le gros bonhomme de rouge vêtu, celui qu’on attend en cette nuit de fête… a disparu. En lieu et place, faisant fonction, un autre bonhomme de rouge vêtu, dans son traîneau tiré par des cochons sauvages, avec sa hotte, sa fausse barbe et son oreiller pour simuler un ventre qu’il n’a pas. Un bonhomme plus habitué à manier la faux qu’à descendre dans les cheminées distribuer des jouets par milliers. Mais quand le devoir appelle… Car certains préméditent l’assassinat du père Porcher. Et s’ils arrivent à leurs fins… … le soleil ne se lèvera pas.

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How would you go about killing someone who was never really alive – not in the usual sense of the word? Mr Teatime (pronounced teh-ah-tim-eh) knows exactly how he'd do it.

As philosophical textbooks go, this is a stonker. What is the nature of belief? How do beliefs interact with reality? How do they colour our view of reality?

As for zingy and/or pithy moments … this books got them in spades.
“The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'.”

As a novel, though, this one falls a bit short. The plot meanders a bit too much for my liking.

Very good, but not Sir Pterry's finest.

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