Huge spiders invading cities? A child swept away by a river of corpses? A burglar who picks locks with her mutated tongue? No doubt ! We swim in the sweet strangeness of David Clerson’s universe. In this new novel, a man inherits the house of his brother, who died after disappearing thirty years earlier. In this residence, he finds the hundred manuscripts of an enigmatic and baroque work in which the border between humans and nature blurs, just like that between the organic and death. While with David Clerson this apocalyptic symbolism can sometimes seem opaque, here it unfolds in a more tangible perspective; that of a bereaved man who, beyond death, seeks to fill the void that his brother’s existence was for him, and to rewrite the fraternal relationship of which he was deprived. A self-referential novel which, like a collection of short stories or poetry, requires a non-linear reading, and a serious questioning of its language and its automatic understanding of the world.
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