Joël Casséus has a weakness for the end of the world. After Twilights And Half sky (Le Tripode, 2018 and 2022), the Quebec writer continues to plow the postapocalyptic furrow with a fifth solo novel, Horizon roots, a new wandering with blurred contours imbued with poetry. On an unnamed island, between “the cordillera of the Ancestors” and “the sea of heaven”, while “the world is sick, has a fever”, a narrator called the Pilgrim searches for his sister, apparently dead. he has been doing for years and who could be waiting for him in “les Racines d’horizon”. A nightmarish universe where all solidarity has disappeared and where this man, weighed down by mourning and fleeing like everyone else from “the primal darkness”, will cross paths with numerous characters without proper names – the Fairman, the Preacher, the First Woman, the Master of Waste. A destabilizing, organic and cold story that advances in jerks, with parabolic dialogues. Disembodied and a little laborious.
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