As I said a few days back, I’m currently reading Mathieu Gaborit’s Chroniques des Crepusculaires, and if the going is very slow – about one hundred pages in about one week – I must say that I am impressed.
No, not impressed by my ability to actually read (very slowly) a pretty literary novel written in French.
The volume is actually the expanded edition of three original novels: Souffre-Jour, Les Danseurs de Lorgol and Agone
No, what impresses me is the book, its style, its worldbuilding.
And mind you – being now about one fifth of the way through, there is still a lot i must discover, as this is one of those books that start by piling questions upon questions on the reader, and then drag him in.

This is a fantasy, but also a mystery of sorts, and a strange phylosophical tale.
With swordfights. Continue reading →