Translations:CP 03989/34/en

I am very embarrassed now! I will appear as a cheap flatterer if I tell you all of what I think about your book. I should have done it earlier. But I did not think at all about the prix Goncourt: I thought I had the time. I read your book bit by bit, and told myself that I would need a holiday to write to you everything that your work had suggested me to write. Too bad! These few brief words will maybe suggest to you all I think of you and that I sum up to you again: I am happy like I never have been since the establishment of this prize.