Dystopia and art serving revality
Éric Monin, author of the dystopia The Hymn of Truth
About the author: from music to dystopia
Éric Monin was born in 1973 in Grenoble and currently live in Geneva. Very early fascinated by music, he studies piano. Despite an appetite also for litterature, he turns to scientific studies in order to become a veterinarian. Everything will be in a hurry when he will get into the Veterinary School of Toulouse: music and litterature will become one.
The Hymn of Truth: an artistic dystopia
This novel retraces the initiatic route of Daniel de Tastel, from the accidental death of his cousin François Polti until the breakup with the love of his life, Sophie. Lost in the lack of understanding of the reality, he starts dreaming of strange scenes, in which he must choose between two parallel paths: the first one is supposed to bring him the full knowledge without any restriction, but at the expense of his soul, the second one to allow him to unite the writing and the music in return for unimaginable suffering.
Then, he starts to write in order to understand which links can exist between words and notes, hoping both to solve his dilemna and to win back the woman of his dreams. But will the parallel mission he has accepted – get out Isabelle, a student in musicology, from a strange occult society, in his opinion responsible for François’ death – not turn him away from his first objective? And what means this enigmatic Hymn of Truth, that Yves Romier, young lady’s father, bequeathed her before he disappears suddenly.
Music
In the novel The Hymn of Truth, the hero Daniel de Tastel composes which he names Symphonic work in ten pictures. Éric Monin meets the challenge here and provides his own version of this symphony which fully immerses you in the world of revality: dysopia and music make then only one.
