The author’s writing style is poetic and certainly dark, but with quite a robust power of description. I really liked the thoughts (his memories) that the narrator unravels. At the start, they are naïve, faltering and hesitant – like a Golem – then gradually through the course of events, they become assured, precise and clear. (All the same, in spite of a certain anxiety and resignation?) Malboire, despite its cruelty and sombre tone, “awakens” our responsibility towards water. Let’s not waste it. The time is over to be resigned, now we have to change our mind-set. In conclusion, an optimistic or pessimistic story? We, the Humans have to make the right...

This time, we’ll be discussing a post-apocalyptic novel clearly labelled as such. It’s published by an editor specialising in the imaginary and unmistakeably asserts its affiliation with science fiction. And yet, between Moi, Marthe et les autres (Me, Martha and the others), by Antoine Wauters, previously mentioned, and our novel of the day Malboire, by Camille LeBoulanger (published in large format by L’Atalante), there aren’t such clear formal differences. On the contrary, I think that these two books are quite similar, particularly in the messages directed at the reader. All the same in Malboire there is a fairly open attack on several big transnational companies...

A novel with a strange atmosphere, Camille Leboulanger's book has revelations right to the end. Because the reader has no idea where he is going, he continues reading. Denunciation of civilisation? Post-apocalyptic genre ridicule? Many questions yet not many answers for a book that remains spellbinding for the reader. Hervé Beilvaire, Temps des livres     There are some absolutely super passages which really get to us; it's not badly written at all. Sentences and short dialogues that [...] embellish the story and especially the atmosphere that reigns. There has been a great catastrophe and there is no way of knowing how it happened. One might imagine that the characters...