O you, human brothers

O you, human brothers is a book of Albert Cohen published in 1972.

In the middle of disillusioned and often funny reflections on the world, Albert Cohen, who feels dying, reconsiders an episode of his childhood, when with the ten years age, it was treated of " youpin" by a street pedlar and summoned from to go away. One finds there many expensive topics with Cohen, such as the hypocrisy of the spiritual values middle-class and the worship of the men for the force.

At the time of the incident, the young Albert Cohen lived in Marseilles.

Quotations

“ If this book could change only one haissor, my brother in death, I would not have written in vain ” (chapter III)
“ Oh, these comic males which circulate, hairy descendants of anthropopitheci and admirers of the force, animal capacity of murder, which circulate by believing that they will be always alive, and they discuss with a low passion this dear football team which should not have been beaten, and which blow for the national honor, and it is the fault of this manure of referee, and they also discuss, with a fury love, the glorious one victory of their national hero, this admirable racing cyclist who just as easily knows that a monkey to quickly stir up his legs on two wheels, and they venerate it and adore it, these cretins, and of its victory they are happy, these unhappy, and they do not suspect that the wood of their cerceuil already exists, in a sawmill or a forest, and awaits them” (chapter V)
“ Of this immense madness of the erudite monkeys, of this incredible madness, I do not return from there and of not finished not returning from there. And while protesting since centuries their love of next, all in of délicieusement being gargarisant, these monkeys vêtus continue to admire the force under all its masks, the horrible force which is capacity to harm and of which the ultimate root and sanction are the ultimate capacity to kill ” (chapter VI)

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