The small thing.. a child's story

Alphonse Dode, what a late discovery for one of France's great writers! This work (The Little Thing) by Marian edition - Awad Publications, first edition 1984! A novel with the same works as the giants like Balzac and Zola, even they call it "the French Dickens" after the giant of English literature Charles Dickens. A semi-autobiographical novel of the writer's life in childhood, adolescence, and early youth with modifications and innovations needed to create a literary work that made it a classic of its time. The authenticity lies in Dode's pen that made me react and get angry at the foolishness and breach of that little thing, which is the narrator-author. He knows how to attract the reader and provoke them. And that is a fundamental trait of a skilled novelist. Reader on Goodreads