The Goncourt Prize (1973) won the novel The Inhuman by the famous Swiss writer Jacques Shesse (1934–2009), a story about a son who became addicted to an absurd, eerie nightmare by a noisy and brutal father of a jury. The father died, and the son buried his life in the grave, the bitterness and poverty of which the author describes with childish force, alternating the compassionate language of the book of Job with the Dionysian grammar of love. It depicts a life suspended by rosaries of mourning, depressed by the memory of the untimely death of a young high school student, a student of our hero; a life that ends in detail and strikingly described suicide. A great opportunity for readers to rise to the heights of earthly joy and fix their eyes on the immeasurable mental suffering.