“Without sun. Disco Inferno and the King of Shadows, volumes 1 and 2 “, by Jean-Christophe Grangé, ed. Albin Michel, 432 and 400 p., € 21.90 and digital € 15 each.
First of all, Jean-Christophe Grangé would like to specify a point, since he is given to him to talk about his work: he does not experience “No fascination” for violence. On the contrary “Because[il] Do not support it in life ”because she “Tourment”that its popular thrillers, read by hundreds of thousands of readers, are full of horrific acts. In Sunlesshis new novel in two volumes, combining formidable efficiency and writing quality, an assassin cuts to the machete of the patients of AIDS yet on the verge of dying – the novel opens in 1982.
“It’s both absurd and monstrous”underlines the one of which each book is born after he had, “As in a nightmare”the vision of the type of murder, of “Ritual”which will launch his intrigue, the identity of the one who perpetuates him and what pushes him. “This is the inspiration phase. A fever of a few hours or a few days, followed by a year or two, depending on the texts, of laborious crafts ”said Jean-Christophe Grangé, from Japan, where he spends “More than a third of the year”alone, to work. Sunless And his 800 pages asked him “A full year”.
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