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        Les Chats des neiges ne sont plus blancs en hiver

        by Noémie Wiorek

        Morz is the northernmost land in the world. Centuries ago, the snow has stopped falling and the ice melted, becoming a shapeless, disgusting mud. There is a shadow to the east of Morz; the shadow of Noir, a maleficent spirit which will do anything to bring the kingdom to his demise. Right behind his steps, is the Second, a prodigious warrior, crueller and fiercer than every minion revolving around them. There is a child on Morz throne: He is expected to be as fervent as his ancestors to maintain the kingdom in the Light. But prince Jaroslav doubts his position and only wants one thing: to live in peace. And in the north, close to the mountains, the witches hatch, vengeful, devoured by their uncertain dream of making snow fall again on their fallen world.

      • August 2021

        What the tramp lacks

        by Nicolas Diat

        They called me the tramp of Bourges.     I’ve seen dark things, terrible people, and sorrowful lives. I’ve seen the sun setting over the swamps, my little lonely shack flying away in the storm, my India inks floating in the water. I was alone, but I wanted this perpetual retreat. So many hours, more than reasonable, were hard, troubling, unfair. They called me the tramp man of Bourges. One day, I was the man in the ragged tunics, the next, a repulsive, devastated man. Thus begins the literary memoirs of a man of the street, born in 1913, murdered in 1978. A kind illustrator and peasant from Berry, devastated, misanthropic, and wild, this unusual character really existed. His name was Marcel Bascoulard. Through the thousands of drawings and photographs he left behind, parts of his life come to light. And yet, his chosen marginality, his taste for mystery, his determined solitude, and his exacerbated suffering hide his tracks. Bascoulard loved his mother (who had murdered her husband), lived in an abandoned truck, and sold his drawings for whatever he was offered. Based on the true story of an extraordinary life, Nicolas Diat tells all and leaves free reign to his imagination in order to try and penetrate the secrets that this heavenly tramp, this shattered character carried to the grave. With this singular debut novel, at once oniric, melancholic, and luminous, Nicolas Diat pulls us into a strange, fascinating world.

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