While on his way to an interview, writer Rémi Roche sees a sticker that propels him into the past, that of a passionate story that haunts him and completely invades his existence. What follows is a flight forward where a disturbing fight takes place between an author and his protagonists. With The mirror maskJean-Simon DesRochers draws his readers into a psychotic tale featuring a gallery of strong, whole characters in all their contradictions who waltz between reality and fiction. The author explores the workings of writing with acuity and intelligence, honoring it by playing with his heroes and heroines, happily crossing the mirror until these fictional beings fall to the other side. Or is it the other way around? And that is the strength of this novel. DesRochers is at once psychopathic, paranoid, sensitive and disturbing. Then, in all this schizophrenia, he skillfully explores the omnipresence of artificial intelligence, going so far as to shake our beliefs about the real author of this story. The boundary between true and false is more porous than ever. Famous.
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