Helene Rioux – författare

Autumnal equinox. The End of the World sails on the Aegean Sea. Aboard is Marjolaine, a cook who recently lost her job at a greasy spoon. She rubs shoulders with chess players, a bookseller, a retired professor, a romance novelist, a blue-haired singer … Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet, people play cards, while others celebrate, read, dream or cry, and still others die. All these lives intersect, meet up again, disappear, and above all tell us that there is not only one truth. In The End of the World is Elsewhere, volume four of her Fragments of the World tetralogy, Hélène Rioux creates an intricate and complex novel filled with topical issues and references to history and literature.

Eleonore in three phases: twelve weeks in Corsica, twelve days in Andalusia, twelve hours in Montreal. Don Juan in three incarnations: in Corsica, he's Clement, a ladies' man who's fading fast; in Andalusia, he's Don Miguel Manara, who dreamed of seducing a thousand and two women; in Montreal, he's Byron and his last unfinished poem. Love, its truth and its lies. Life and death hovering over us.