At first this book bored me to hell, you are totally expecting something different from the title "the beast and the jungle", and then you get two weird human beings having strange conversations about "the mistery of their lives" and how to figure it out.

And the book goes on with those strange conversations sometimes allusive to "a jungle" and a "beast" as in a weird metaphore that will make you read the whole book and then finally understand what that was about, because until then it was just assumptions.

I have to say this book won me at the end when they are both old and one of them is about to die. This is a psychological tale just around feelings and self knowleage. And he finally discovers the secret of his life, at the end of it.