Every month, Le Regard Libre publishes the unpublished novel The return by young Swiss author Elliot Mazzella, in the form of fifteen episodes. A return to fiction in these pages, a return to the old tradition of the serial novel.
Joseph's situation in the village is as unstable as ever. After his encounter with Pierre in the village pigsty, he is left for dead. Pierre, convinced of having committed a fratricidal crime, flees. It is Simeon who brings back Joseph's apparently lifeless body, even though the day before he had ordered his men to hunt him down like an animal.
Joseph's body was found. Simeon carried it, alone, to the village. When he was seen arriving in the distance, it looked as if it was his son he was carrying in his arms. The children were the first to run to him, fascinated and unafraid,
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