Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Jean-Luc Savard
Towards the end of the 19th century, in a setting close to the future "World Peace Capital," two modest youths, two lives between adolescence and adulthood, signal the context of the time. They will point to the departure of two existences soon detached from their predictable futures. Inadvertently cast off, these two destinies will navigate a plot with parallels, in very vast domains, almost between tropics and ice floes. Then, patiently circumvented at the beginning of the 20th century, an essential theme, hidden in the future of the two protagonists, will guide your reading towards a crescendo of underlying questions. On the one hand, glorified fiction, the variety of narrative choices, the diversity of reflective sources. On the other, a narrative developed in correspondence, to elucidate the future of the young girl mentioned in the prologue. These foundations will lead and refer from one character to another, until the finale, a mock requiem, with a major revelation, a surprise twist. Before that, a whole yesterday taken as a detailed relationship to today's world, to consider tomorrow with a fresh eye.