Merminus infinitif

An unknown archipelago, the Kerkennah islands, becomes for a while the centre of the world in this novel set around 2050. A bus carrying eighteen characters brought together by chance heads down to the port, while a pleasure boat with a pretentious interior cruises the Mediterranean; the two are bound to meet in an accident, and the story runs like a countdown. Around them unfold a Kafkaesque trial broadcast across the earth, in which a dull man accused of crimes beyond him becomes the leader of an imaginary revolt, a prosecutor who drowns himself in music, a bridge and ogres. One of the voices is a male fly. Interludes of poetry punctuate the book.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

219 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia, around 2050

First published

2020 by Contraste Éditions

ISBN

9789973878656 (original)