Publisher's presentation:
Saying nothing, not flying off into commentary, staying at the confluence of knowledge and ignorance, at the foot of the wall. To show how it is, how it happens, how it works, how it doesn't work. To divide the speeches by facts, the ideas by gestures. Just documenting the laborious everydayness.  
Entre les murs is inspired by the ordinary tragi-comic life of a French teacher. In this novel written as close to reality as possible, François Bégaudeau reveals and invests the raw state of a living language, ours, of which middle school is the most faithful echo chamber.