A grave for five hundred thousand soldiers dedicated to the Algerian war, the passions around which had not yet subsided in French society, which was painfully experiencing the fall of the empire. A novel replete with explicit descriptions of scenes of sexual violence and murder. Today, this book, first published in the Russian translation of M. Ivanov, is recognized as the greatest and most striking French novel of our time, and Guillot himself is considered the only living writer equal to such key figures as Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille and Jean Genet.