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Patrick Raveau
Patrick Raveau was born in 1957 and lives in Poissy, where he taught philosophy. Around thirty of his short stories have been published in magazines specializing in fiction and fantasy, in regional newspapers, along with essays on contemporary poets. A fictional novel, Hydriss, was published in 2014 by Asgard. Several books of poetry have also been published, including four by Harmattan and the latest by Unicité.
In the fourteenth century, a monk discovers a manuscript with blank pages in his abbey's library and decides to recount the history of his community. Seven centuries later, a young man comes across the same work, only the first few pages of which have been blackened by the clergyman. From this will be born a long correspondence nourished by reflections and questions between the two men. A correspondence whose risk is great since the monk risks being condemned to the stake by the tribunal of the Holy Inquisition if ever a malicious eye discovers the secret activity in which he is engaged. But what will become of the mysterious book? In this short, profoundly humanist novel, philosophy and fantasy are intertwined around the very notion of time. Order Press release
