"Dans un village et un temps reculé, un cochon croque la joue et l'épaule d'un bébé laissé quelques instants sans surveillance, avant de repartir tranquillement vers la forêt. Traqué, il est jeté en prison puis sur la scène du tribunal où toute la société attend de comparaître pour accuser la bête. Alors commence la grande mascarade de la justice. De la famille éplorée au juge en passant par les avocats et les témoins, de la salle d'audience à la potence, l'auteur nous invite au théâtre de l'absurde. Du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle, en Europe, les hommes jugeaient des animaux. Une truie infanticide, un cheval obscène, des sauterelles saccageant les récoltes, et un procès s'organise... Mais comment produit-on un animal devant la cour? Comment pourrait-il se défendre? Comment dire sans mots? Autant de questions que pose Oscar Coop-Phane dans ce livre unique et passionnant. Chacun reconnaîtra, dans ce texte allégorique, le porc qu'il voudra."--Back cover. n a village and a remote time, a monster crunches the cheek and the shoulder of a baby left alone for a few moments by his mother, then leaves quietly towards the forest. He is soon overtaken by a horde of men determined to kill him, but in the world of men, justice, like death, go to court. Even if the monster in question is a pig that has neither conscience nor word to defend itself. Can we be heard without words? The gendarmes then embark him and throw him in prison, before his big trial. In a short and powerful text, Oscar Coop-Phane tells us about the trial of a pig, like those that were brought to animals until the end of the 18th century, a practice as strange as today's unknown. . Divided into four parts, the text first traces The Crimethen The Trial, written as a play in which the lawyers of both parties, the family of the victim, the witnesses and experts consulted, the public and the jurors, and the pig, as well as you will see, before the President renders his sentence: hanging. Next is L'Attente , where everyone prepares for the death of pork; Jean, the executioner, Louis, the young officer in charge of leading the accused, Father Paul, en route to confess the beast, the bereaved family, and the pig that The torturewill come to liberate. With a sharp and penetrating language, Oscar Coop-Phane takes us back centuries to delve into human feelings, fear, anger, cruelty and the thirst for revenge, but also empathy or pain. An allegorical text where everyone will recognize in the animal, the pork he wants.