The diving suit and the butterfly

Author's name: John Dominique Boubidar Publisher: Maskelliani Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2017 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: From where the available ends, begins creativity, and free souls even if they became corpses, capable of flying. Two deep lessons from a novel that did not bother with preaching and guidance, for all the writer did was insist on life, and for such a task, a nose and lungs for breathing, a pharynx to receive food, and a wink of the left eye for the remaining roles are enough! Yes, that wink kept John Dominique Boubidar fully connected to the world, inventing a way of communication that is the live translation of the word "will." As for the content of the narration, it is a back-and-forth between a capable yesterday and a crippled present, and between an outside that is seen and an inside that sees, with no link between chapter and another, or story and another, except that each occupied a space in memory and conscience. So, in loss, nothing remains of the difference between trivial and important, each has its share of longing. And the novel, like all great works, digs into questions of essence and the duality of substance and accident, even if it resorts to dark humor — perhaps it succeeded only in that. Isn't the writer's charming spirit the objective equivalent of humor and its lightness, akin to a butterfly? And his troubled body is his tight diving suit, and its darkness is reality and metaphor?