A polyphonic novel about the invisible forces that shape our lives, about the spirits of the dead and the traces that the living struggle to leave, The Events is the work of a writer haunted by the ghosts of history and the forgotten of the present.
Dying Lucy is lying in a hospital bed, the internet gives her forty days to live. Little Ophelia thinks of nothing else but her own illness and the medicine she buys for the boys at her school. Her mother, Sarah, has a new lover, a kind of silent, magical monster who hides a mystery, or perhaps nothing. Paul is going to lose everything: his girlfriend, his daughter and even his mother, who will soon no longer recognize him. Between the Historical and Genealogical Society where he works without conviction, the old people’s home where his mother is attached and the family home where no one needs him anymore, he wonders what he could be used for or, failing that, interested in. Why are our lives so disappointing, so devoid of scope? Victor Hugo dialogued with the spirit of Shakespeare, André Breton unearthed treasures from his unconscious, Marcel Duchamp transformed his life into a work of art... Why are these greatnesses no longer within our reach? The whim of an unknown man from Europe seems to be the only possible adventure.
