Paperback, 542 pages
Published by French and European Publications Inc.
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon who outpaced Charlie in some ways. But a remarkable operation had been performed on Algernon, and now he was a genius among mice. Suppose Charlie underwent a similar operation... ([source][1])
Un très beau livre sur l'intelligence, la grandeur et le déclin, avec l'Amérique de l'après guerre et son optimisme scientiste en toile de fond. Je suis nul pour écrire des critiques, mais j'ai beaucoup aimé ce livre. La fin m'a bouleversé, même si le dénouement n'est pas une surprise.
