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Brodeck’s job is not about telling stories. He writes short notices on the state of the flora and trees, the seasons and the game, the snow and rain – an insignificant activity for the administration that employs him. "What we want from you is not a novel” says Rudi Gott, the blacksmith, “you just have to say your bit, as you do in your reports.”
Brodeck agrees to at least try. Say things the way he does in his reports then, since he does not know how to express himself otherwise.
The condition, however, is that everybody, all the inhabitants of the village and neighboring hamlets, approve of this. Brodeck is extremely conscientious and will hide nothing of what he has seen, of the truth he does not yet know. Even if this truth is bad news.
The mayor of the village is irate. “What is the use of this Brodeck? Have you not seen enough dead during the war? What looks more like a corpse than another corpse, can you tell me? Your task is to take note of all the facts, but leave out insignificant details. Remember that you will be read by people who hold important posts in the capital. I can see that you doubt it, but yes, you will be read …”
Brodeck takes the mayor’s warning into account. Not to stray, not to look for that which is not there, or not there anymore. And yet. Brodeck will do exactly the opposite.

Philippe Claudel is the author of Les âmes grises, which was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 2003 and which is translated into thirty languages, and of La petite fille de Monsieur Linh (Stock, 2005). His novel Le rapport de Brodeck was awarded the Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2007. Illustrated with shooting stills, Petite fabrique des rêves et des réalités includes the script of Philippe Claudel’s first film, Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, out in cinemas in France on March 19 2008, starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Elsa Zylberstein.