The narrator of Prehistoric Times might easily be taken for an
inhabitant of Beckett's world: a dreamer who in his savage and deductive
folly tries to modify reality. The writing, with its burlesque
variations, accelerations, and ruptures, takes us into a frightening and
jubilant delirium, where the message is in the medium and digression
gets straight to the point. In an entirely original voice, Eric
Chevillard asks looming and luminous questions about who we are, the
paths we've been traveling, and where we might be going - or not.