What the reader has here is a generous, optimistic and thought-provoking work. Roger Bozetto, Revue Solaris 182    For his new book, Claude Ecken has ventured into dangerous territory. Strictly speaking neither novel nor collection of short stories, Au reveil il était midi seems more like a collection of accounts, portraits and scenes of daily life, that, put end to end, form a very detailed picture of our society and its very near future. The eviction of a family of squatters, a police control that gets out of hand, the administrative assault course facing  an unemployed single mother dealing with a hundred little bureaucratic hassles, a young geography teacher,...