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Cantique du chaos
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Following Attacking the Earth and the Sun (winner of the 2023 Prix Inter), Mathieu Belezi's new, previously unpublished novel, a desperado's road movie, summons our era and elevates it through literature. The world has reached its ultimate point of madness. Cataclysms ravage it, totalitarian regimes set it ablaze. But one man, Théo Gracques, remains indifferent to these disasters. Taking refuge on an island, he meets a woman, also a rebel, and her two children. The four of them then embark on a journey across Europe and the Americas to defy fate, to live their freedom to the fullest... Canticle of Chaos is a text of a lyricism one would not have thought possible in French literature. In an extraordinary language, full of rage and tenderness, Mathieu Belezi offers us a baroque road movie, a modern incarnation of the desperado figure. Following the revolt expressed in Attacking the Earth and the Sun (Le Tripode, 2022), this novel once again places the author in the lineage of great South and North American writers. One thinks of Roberto Bolaño, Jack Kerouac, Gabriel García Márquez, Cormac McCarthy... of all those who, in response to the madness of humanity, make literature one of the last bastions of resistance—and the only escape from what dehumanizes us
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