MY BEAUTIFUL BUS By Jacques Jouet Translated by Eric Lamb
The mother won’t tell her daughter the end.
Contents Dedication
What’s missing on the novel’s cover.
Perrault, the wolf, and Puss in Boots.
“Here you are, sire, a cottontail rabbit.”
Easter in Paris and Paris at midnight.
My beautiful bus, a private place.
Story about the young German and his cadaver.
Story about Hans Martin’s parents.
Landscapes, the immense world.
Copyright
Other Works by Jacques Jouet in English Translation
If it so happened that I had to decide, among the legible world’s variety of propositions, or more specifically among those candidates under the category of road signs, which legible suggestion deserves to be called the most counter-logical and disarming, then it turns out I wouldn’t have much trouble. It isn’t unusual to discover, along roads of all sorts, this odd triangular image that the authorities have erected in plain view— —signaling a crossing for aroused deer running at full speed, which drivers must avoid hitting, even though everyone knows that at such locations the average driver will hardly ever see the slightest trace of one. On the other hand, I’ve never come across a sign like this one— NO DUMPING
