by Pierre Chaine · Magnard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782210743489
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"Mémoires d'un rat" is the novel by Pierre Chaine published by Magnard in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Ferdinand, a mouse born in a captain's shelter, ends up becoming the pet of soldier Victor Juvenet and is dragged to the front during the First World War. From his animal perspective, the novel portrays with irony the waiting in the trenches, the disappointments of leave and the violence of combat, including the assaults at Verdun.
Annotated edition by Stéphane Maltère, number 159 in the Classiques & Contemporains collection. The work was originally published in 1917 and includes the comments of Ferdinand, a former trench mouse.
A work recommended reading in the French education system for the troisième class and the terminale professionnelle.
