” Everytime. The same cries of horror, the same cries of anguish and the same cries of courage. That’s the first sentence of Nicolas-Benoît Perriot’s first novel, “Domaines, the seventh continent”. It may not go down in history as “A long time I went to bed early”
, but it has the merit of introducing the universe. Style, no. This intro is a kind of written cry, the rest, the following chapters let the sentences breathe more, install the story, set the scene. They also reveal in passing a writing under construction. This is often the principle of a first novel, self-employed. The publisher, in this case Verone editions, lays out, prints, illustrates, distributes, markets, but does not correct anything. From where a certainty: the continuation of the trilogy will be better.
A childhood in Richemont
Because, yes, there will be three volumes. Like all heroic fantasy universes, that of “Domains” is rich, extended to several continents, sends its young characters on a distant quest, perilous, inevitably, and with a secret truth at the end. The heroes are four teenagers, Alex, Will, Ann-Abel and Violaine. Two of them work in the mine, the third on the farm and the fourth is the daughter of scholars. Everything becomes clearer in the light of Nicolas-Benoît Perriot’s journey. We never write from nothing. He, his childhood, he spent with a view of the mines and the AIDS. “I talk a lot about myself in this book. I grew up in Richemont, near the factory, my children’s grandfather was a miner. Opposite my house, I had a view of the Gandrange steelworks. “He attended his college in Uckange, in the 1980s (he is 48 years old), in the heart of the steel industry, before going to high school in Thionville. Today, he is a math and science trainer in Stenay, in a Rural Families establishment, with future farmers.
The desire to write fell on him one evening of rupture, in February 2010. For five months, he wrote twenty pages a day, by hand. Before retyping them. “Why teenagers? Why heroic fantasy? I do not have the answer. As he is also a musician and chorister (Le Tourdion in Metz, Comme un accord in Marly, Saxo Seven in Nancy and Makoloko in Verdun), he completed this volume 1 in 2018. His book, Nicolas-Benoît Perriot intended it for the public popular with teenagers and young adults. “I tell a story. My message is: have fun! Read ! Take the time to read! I have no claim behind. »
“On the Swann side”, Marcel Proust.
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