Mi hermano

In his most personal book to date, Daniel Pennac remembers his deceased brother in the most emotional and original way: through the figure of Bartleby, the famous Herman Melville scribe. Thus, Pennac expands the seams of mourning literature and uses his love of letters to create precious memories. The author starts from a certainty shared by all: we never get to know our loved ones in their entirety. In order to better understand his brother, Pennac revisits Melville's procrastinating scribe, a character much loved by both of them, and turns him into a kind of mirror in which to observe and remember Bernard. Thus Pennac signs a book of infinite tenderness that becomes at the same time an ode to literature.