Benjamin Fogel

La transparence selon Irina

April 7, 2021
Detective Fiction
280 pages
110 × 170 mm
9782743652814
978-2-7436-5281-4

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																Benjamin Fogel, La transparence selon Irina
																Benjamin Fogel, La transparence selon Irina

Our world thirty years from now. The Internet no longer exists, replaced by the “Network”, which has ushered in an era of transparency for all data, including the most personal. To preserve a form of privacy, a number of people like Camille Lavigne choose to operate under pseudonyms in real life. On the Network, Camille is under the influence of a brilliant intellectual, Irina Loubovsky. Irina spreads opinions and takes numerous positions online, but evades when Camille tries to learn more about her. Could she have connections with the Obscuranets, those cyberterrorists who fight against the system of transparency?

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The author

Benjamin Fogel was born in 1981 in the Paris suburbs. He is the founder of Playlist Society, a publisher of essays on pop culture (cinema, music, literature…) In 2015, he published his first novel with Le mot et le reste: Le Renoncement de Howard Devoto, a fictionalized biography of the leader of Buzzcocks and Magazine, through which he traces the history of English punk. In 2016, he continued this work with Swans et le dépassement de soi, an essay on Michael Gira, an iconoclastic figure in contemporary music. His first real work of fiction will be published in 2019 by Rivages in the Rivages/Noir collection: La Transparence selon Irina (Prix Rivages des libraires 2021), a novel of social and political anticipation, which initiates the Trilogie de la transparence. This will continue in 2021 with Le Silence selon Manon, dedicated to toxic masculinity, then in 2024 with L’Absence selon Camille, the story of a failed revolution. In 2021, he was one of the writers of the new version of Métal hurlant magazine.

April 7, 2021
Detective Fiction
280 pages
110 × 170 mm
9782743652814
978-2-7436-5281-4

“Rivages Noir” collection

Rivages