Jonathan Gourdeau “felt an aversion […] towards reality and fictions which have a happy conclusion. Ironically, in the midst of writing this novel, he will hasten his own conclusion […]. He was 42 years old,” we can read at the end of The crocodile bite. Her long-time friend, the editor and novelist Pénélope Jolicoeur, found herself with an incomplete manuscript that she took head on. Because there was the quality of a biting text in horror and pop culture, in satire and black humor. Mixing dark realism with psychedelic delirium. And this, to tell the descent into hell (like Orpheus) of a narrator in his forties, unemployed, alcoholic. And, soon, alone. Rachel, his partner of some 20 years, disappears after ending their relationship. Starts a quest during which characters will appear who would not be out of place Aliss by Patrick Senécal. With just the right amount of light at the end so as not to betray the author. An offbeat and destabilizing literary object.
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