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3.5⭐️ A WWI tragicomic with no war actions, set on a single day in a French provincial town. Guilloux portrayed his characters well. I got lost in the sea of characters at first, but slowly Guilloux dug deeper into each one of them, revealing how the society dealt with the horror of a war. I sniffed a bit of Zola‘s style here, but in a more masculine and careless way.