Human casualties, Marc Molk, éditions Arléa
Publication date : august 24th 2006
ISBN : 2869597452

EDITOR’S PITCH

Marc Molk choses a scientific method to list, military-report like, the people he used to know, the friends and the lovers whom he’s lost.

Loss rate, share of responsibility, chances to make up : Molk makes an inventory of the people now missing to his life. Lost fiendships, broken loves, early deaths, neighbour or schoolfriend, each card is carefully drafted to account for the bond that once existed between him and each lost one.
It is also, subtly, a portrait of the author who, in describing those missing, with his emotional questioning, his forgetfulness, his resentment and his impulses, resembles all of us.