Ticho is the son of a successful writer who gradually descended into madness. From his childhood, he recalls the isolation of the house, his father’s wanderings, and the dialogues he maintained with Roth, the character at the center of a manuscript he had been composing for years without ever finishing it. Ticho delves back into these memories while he himself struggles to finish his novel. But through his intimate exploration, other, more disturbing things appear, such as a special section of the secret police tasked with imprisoning recalcitrant fictional characters in a camp specially created for them: the mysterious “Île Ø”.
L’Île Ø begins as a psychological novel, continues as a detective quest flirting with the fantastic, and concludes with surprising revelations.
A passionate homage to imagination and literature, L’Île Ø is one of those novels that you read in one sitting, drawn in by successive revelations as much as by the prodigious inventiveness deployed by the author.
