ALYTE

Suddenly, a roaring din tears through the twilight. When the silence, a toad lies on the asphalt. Gathering its last strength, it carries his string of eggs to the saving waters of the pond — and from the single egg Unharmed, an orphaned tadpole hatches: Alyte is a survivor. Barely born, and already we must fight! escape from the birds, bears and other gods of the world of the river. Luckily, a salmon shows him how to use the currents and foil the traps. This salmon is called Iodine, he is his first friend. Later, Alyte will meet a kid and an eagle; an owl, and finally Axon, the most old tree of the forest. Each of them will tell him about the world in their own way, awakening her to her beauties. And soon the time will come for Alyte to take care, in turn, of a new string of eggs. He will then need, like his father before him, cross the lethal line. This straight line that crosses the forest and growls at the approach of animals. This black line which mows them down without reason, against which the tiny Alyte has almost nothing to oppose, except his immense thirst for life. After The Panther's Speech, Jérémie Moreau continues his exploration of the wild that lives alongside us, as close as it is invisible. Among of the multitude of dramas that are played out there, he chooses to stage the most formidable: that of the confrontation with an absurd human world and blind, its deadly violence, without purpose and without consideration. With Alyte, a Jeremiah Moreau, ever more virtuoso, invites his reader to change his relationship with the living and enter, like this valiant toad, into resistance.