"Décapsule un oeuf." ("Pop open an egg.") Enter Palafox. Palafox, Eric Chevillard's third novel of eleven, explores the ecosystem of an unclassifiable yet enchanting, protean creature. A team of "experts" armed with degrees of higher learning is determined to label, train, pamper, baptize, and realize the elusive creature, while Palafox-driven by his own interior logic and flanked by another dimension for the most part on his side-effortlessly and wordlessly defies them all.