A bitter pill.I'm disappointed with this diary. I did not find the playful construction of the key nor the devastating humo…A bitter pill.I'm disappointed with this diary. I did not find the playful construction of the key nor the devastating humor of Fumiko's foot.The narrator is a wealthy older man who is sick, powerless, and selfish but a priori lucid. In his diary, he describes, in large print, his daily life as a suffering older adult. It was punctuated by his medical treatments, as extravagant as they are costly, and by the obsessive and no less expensive passion he feels for his daughter-in-law, precisely for his foot. He goes so far as to desire a grave trodden on by the tremendous white feet of his beautiful daughter.The old madman, his family, and his doctors are reminiscent of many characters from Molière or the Comedia dell Arte. The social and moral satire of the bourgeois family is very present in the middle of the suppositories. But the pathos prevails; we smile without laughing, a little disgusted, a little disturbed. That's the goal of the game, you might say. But I found the pill a bit too bitter for my taste.