This French edition presents Evgeni Grichkovets’s compact dramatic monologue, a work known for its spare, conversational voice and its blend of humor, memory, and melancholy. Moving through recollections of youth, friendship, military service, and ordinary moments that become emotionally charged in hindsight, the text turns personal experience into a reflective meditation on growing up and the distance between past and present. Its theatrical structure gives the prose an intimate immediacy, as though a single speaker is addressing the reader directly. The book is well suited to readers interested in contemporary Russian writing, stage literature, and translated works that use plain language to explore loyalty, loss, and the awkwardness of becoming an adult.