"Goodbye Up There" is a new novel by Pierre Lemaitre, which could be called "The Living and the Dead." To survive the First World War, which lasted four long years, was a great happiness and great luck. So why do the heroes of the novel “Goodbye Up There,” the artist Edouard and his friend Albert, who miraculously survived the bloodbath, envy their fallen comrades, and their pipe dream turns out to be new shoes and an ampoule of morphine? While Captain Henri d'Aulnay-Pradel, who calmly disposed of their lives, easily earns millions from... coffins. Before us is a novel-fresco, a novel-event, crowned with the Goncourt Prize, a large literary fish in the lack of fish of recent years.