Antoine Peluchet’s three books contain the seed of the itinerary of a rebellious son and his quest for the Absolute. Read again by the father as the narrator imagines him, after the son has left, they flesh up his absence and nourish the uncertain and contested legend of Antoine Peluchet. Yet father and son are little but anticipations or previews of a narrator who stages the way narratives are transmitted with their failings and uncertainties, and manages to write “A Life of Antoine Peluchet” by resurrecting the memory of his lost ancestors.