Why do birds die?

Author: Victor Bouchet

Number of pages: 196

Publication year: 2021

In the novel “Why Do Birds Die” by the Frenchman Victor Bouchet, there is one story that moves within three overlapping circles: the story of the young man “Bochet” who hears about the rain of dead birds falling in different areas of the region in which he saw the light, so he rushes to investigate the matter, as an atonement for his sin. old. Then the circumstances of the rain of birds falling, which are mysterious circumstances, to which the writer devotes interesting chapters that transcend time. Finally, the story of resurrection or the end of time, which is a narrative line intended by the writer, raising, at the same time, the finger of condemnation in the face of humanity, saying that it has “lost the virtue of patience.” Through this plot, Victor Bouchet reassembles the pieces of his lost childhood and his confused youth in two images: Dystopia. The imminent end of the world, then a utopia that believes in the possibility of saving humanity from its sins if it believes in the right to error.

As this novel raises the slogan “The sky is no longer wide enough for everyone,” it presents to the reader, through its implicit sarcasm, a suitable and ideal recipe for failure, defending the human right to fail. Aren't we ultimately wandering around the rocks of our illusions, believing that we have realized and known everything?!