Eric Chevillard is a renowned contemporary author who is one of the most
inventive young writers on the French literary scene. His third novel,
Palafox, explores the ecosystem of an unclassifiable yet enchanting protean
creature. A team of 'experts' armed with degrees of higher learning is
determined to label, train, pamper, baptise and classify the elusive
creature, while Palafox - driven by his own interior logic and flanked by
another dimension for the most part on his side - effortlessly and
wordlessly defies them all.