**Christophe Lavigne** (2019). The song of the goat. The Queen Frog Edition. 71 p. After a historical novel in Spain in 1936 and a travelogue in Verdun, **Lavigne** offers this time a book of reflection. The disaster has already happened. The world evolves. Is it good or bad? Whatever. In any case, we have to adapt and face new constraints and new dangers. To confront mediocrity, Christophe Lavigne suggests that we go back to the origins by questioning Greek civilization and its definition of tragedy. Inequality, violence and death, three key concepts that our contemporaries seek, in vain, to get out of their way. But rather than fleeing the tragic shouldn't we rather be one with it? It is on these tracks, freed from all pompous and intellectualizing rhetoric, that the author leads us. Le Chant du bouc’s invites itself into the midst of considerations on the contemporary world, a world that has become complex and difficult to read, and offers us keys to break free and, why not, to be accomplished. More than a reflection book, a life manual. **Order**