Jean-Baptiste Del Amo delves into themes of death, the quest for identity, the body, and sexuality in his works. His writing often explores notions of silence, the unsaid, and apparent inaction, as seen in his early fiction. Later novels focus on family histories and personal memories, capturing the complexities of human relationships and the impact of the past on the present. The author's style is characterized by its immersion in the depths of human psyche and physicality, offering readers profound contemplation.
After several years of absence, a man reappears in the life of his wife and their young son and takes them to the dilapidated house in the mountains. The Son of Man is an exceptional novel on the transmission of violence from one generation to the next.
ANIMALIA retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm.