Nicolas Gorodetzky, former singer of the famous Toulouse group Week-End Millionnaire, doctor specializing in major pop concerts and author of several thrillers and adventure novels bathed in the great American spaces, returns with a collection of short stories, “The Day Where the Canal turned red ” (photo). Seven weird short stories, inspired by real events or ancient legends. This time, it is not in America that “Doctor Rock” has set the scene for its stories, but here, in Occitania – even if we take a detour – we do not go back – through Dallas, Texas. The news which gives its title to the collection is in the image of the whole: from the opening, with a sentence like: “For my friends and my neighbors, I am a good father of family with a pleasant daily life and without history, some would say smooth and dull “, we understand that the horror awaits us, lurking in the shadows, and that it will hit hard and on the bull’s-eye … The Canal is of course that of midday, and we wander through a pink city turned red, from the Pont des Demoiselles to the dog punks at Matabiau station. Gorodetzky’s rock references are tasty: we listen to Garland Jeffreys, we leaf through an old Rock & Folk, and there is a lot of talk of a rue de Verneuil, which does not exist in Toulouse, but in Paris, where a certain … Serge Gainsbourg. The novelist gets along there to lead his intrigues with verve and we follow the characters as close as possible to their descent into hell, intimate spirals as disturbing as they are mysterious. A great success.
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