It was published in Paris by Les Éditions du Seuil in 2003, and has been translated into English and Spanish.

Nicholas Lezard, in The Guardian, said of the English translation: "there was a Lobster-shaped hole in world literature which has now been neatly filled by this remarkable work".

[1] In The Daily Telegraph, Sam Leith put it in a list of 'Mad Stuff'.

[2] Kirkus Reviews called it a "brief, bizarre, boiling broth of surrealism, romantic fatalism and slapstick",[3] and Publishers Weekly said it was "both tender and appalling".

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