Paul Sanda read Olivier Larronde's work as a poet, not as an exegete. What makes his book so engaging is the element of life he introduces into it—biography, of course, but also his own through anecdotes and encounters, with their element of objective chance, which led him to forge his own spiritual path, freely inspired by both surrealism and esotericism, particularly alchemy. We will meet with great pleasure poets, among whom Alain-Pierre Pillet, and we will become acquainted, through the evocation of the figure of Olivier's father, Carlos Larronde, with the Fraternité des Veilleurs which brought together for a time, for esoteric research, occultists, poets and writers: René Schwaller, Oscar Milosz, Carlos Larronde, Camille Flammarion, Pierre Loti, Henri Cotton-Alvart, Gaston Revel, Henri de Régnier, among others. Thus Paul Sanda's book allows us to rediscover a poet who has been too forgotten – this is not his least merit –, and to develop a whole reflection on what poetry could, should be. Alain Roussel