Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Jean-Olivier Lods
Jean-Olivier Lods was born in 1963. A lover of literature since childhood, he has constantly written poems and prose texts on the fringes of his daily life, without the slightest thought of publication. He has decided to take this step today with this collection of short stories in which the imaginary defies reality and in which his closeness to Perrault, Poe, Van Vogt, Asimov, and other great authors from other worlds is affirmed.
A child, Nicolas, speaks with a crow who introduces him to the hidden paths of magic once frequented by his father. Magic has its rules, and breaking them is not without surprises. A writer discovers fragments of strange texts in his basket that he did not write... But who is the author? In a world where hyper-connection is omnipresent and locks everything, including thoughts, what place can Jason, the child artist who gives shape to his dreams with the tip of his charcoal pencils, have? Can we control humans' dreams in order to better enslave them? A totalitarian state has thought about it, creating a special intervention brigade for this purpose. But that was without counting on Arthur, the poet. In total, eleven short stories, eleven tales escaped from the weight of reality by the flying carpet of the imaginary, dreams, or the fantastic. Publication: May 2, 2025 Order Press release
