Benjamin Fogel

L’absence selon Camille

March 1, 2024
Detective Fiction
360 pages
155 × 225 mm
21 €
9782743662400
978-2-7436-6240-0

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																Benjamin Fogel, L’absence selon Camille
																Benjamin Fogel, L’absence selon Camille

2060: online life has supplanted real life. “Despite transparency, we lie to you”: this slogan, which has just appeared on the walls of Paris, has the police worried. Sébastien Mille, an old volunteer cop, and his daughter, Commissaire Holly Mille, investigate the origins of this graffiti. Léonard Parvel, 13, is one of the taggers. Convinced that his missing father is a member of the Obscuranets, a revolutionary movement fighting against the proliferation of the virtual, he takes part in insurrectionary actions in the hope of finding his whereabouts.

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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.

March 1, 2024
Detective Fiction
360 pages
155 × 225 mm
21 €
9782743662400
978-2-7436-6240-0

“Rivages Noir” collection

Rivages