Jules Romains would enjoy these months of pandemic, incredulous that what he told a century ago in a brilliant comedy in three acts, Knock or the triumph of medicine (recently sent back to the bookstore by liberilibri, XXII-114 pp., 9 euros) is today the protagonist of television talk-shows where infectious diseases and virologists, skeptics of lockdowns and irreproachable advocates of the confinement of citizenship in their own home, collide.
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