This book is addressed to free, too free people, determined to wrest power over reality from the people. This book will seduce many. Because the freedom of free people is, first of all, the freedom to be nobody, to know nothing, to build under the heavenly radiance.

The journey of a brave young man through French Africa in the 1950s, from the mountain pastures of Algeria to the ocean in Agadir and to the great river Senegal. “The last field of Western experimentation” was called Africa by François Augieras, who despised European civilization and considered himself a man of the future, a savage who had abandoned the laws, customs and opinions of ordinary people. He never parted with a pistol and loved young shepherds, prostitutes in port brothels, his uncle, the half-blind mystic Marcel Augieras, and serene Algerian sheep.

The ocean strengthened my health, I was confident, happy, ready to kill and experience an orgasm.