He reached a considerable critical and popular success with his novel “La Horde du Contrevent” (The Horde of the Counterwind), Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2006, and as a scriptwriter too for the AAA game “Remember Me” and for the ‘Phonophore’ projects, an radiophonic expansion of his future novel “The Stealthies”.Īlain co-founded the videogames company “DONTNOD”and the art sound studio “Tarabust”. COCORICO!īut apparently my euphoria is not shared by all: a great player friend was not seduced.Born in 1969 in Lyon, Alain Damasio is a committed writer, convinced that science-fiction can say and change the world. The author is a poet as a certified scientist. More than a novel is an exercise in style, a virtuoso work, a literary challenge at several levels (cf. If Inuit have a hundred words to define the snow, Damasio has almost as much to interpret and describe the wind language.
This novel has a unique writing style, a surprisingly rich vocabulary for this genre. Then vibrates, one is afraid, one enjoys with them Then time to grasp the logic, the internal structure of the novel, the elements fall into place, the psychology of the characters, we let the Horde gradually embark in his dangerous adventures. Reading it is deserved because the introduction is difficult and plunges the reader into an unknown universe, the hermetic language with the presentation of many characters. Horde of Contrevent is an initiatory novel in search of meaning. Every word sounds, slap, fuse: Alain Damasio plays his pen as a brush, a camera or a weapon … Masterpiece worn by a rare word-of-mouth, the novel logically been awarded the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire… Unique reading experience Contrevent The Horde is a book – end of a universe that same fire of adventure and poetry of course, the nude fight and the quest for a deeper meaning of living that would unite the movement and link.
They cross their world standing, walking, looking for a Far Upstream leaking before them like crazy horizon. They are pillar winger, plotter, and aéromaître géomaître, feuleuse and diviner, troubadour and scribe. They are twenty to three, a block, a courage node: the Horde. An elite group, trained from childhood to face, from the confines of a fierce land, bursts of bleeding, to seek the origin of the wind.
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