The Instituto Francés of Madrid welcomes the writer Nathan Devers tomorrow Wednesday at 19:00 in its Media Library, on the occasion of the publication in Spain of his book Vínculos artificiales (Artificial Bonds). The boundaries between reality and the metaverse are blurred in this necessary, provocative and anticipatory novel. Free admission with advance booking at this link.
Julien Libérat is, by all accounts, a failure. His career as a pianist has hit rock bottom, his partner has just left him, his job seems awful and, to top it all, he is forced to move to the suburbs. He is in his thirties and drifting in a dull, uberised everyday life that has dragged him to the brink of depression.
It is then – while trying in vain to compose a music album – that he meets “the Antiworld”, an online video game that recreates reality with absolute precision and where everything is possible and which has been created by Adrien Sterner, a millionaire technophile with little concern for humanity and much for his ego and his profits.
In this metaverse, Julien creates his avatar under the name of Vangel and there things start to go much better for him: one success follows another and life finally becomes what he had dreamed of. As well as amassing a large fortune, he becomes famous for the poems he publishes. Despite his growing addiction to this parallel world, everything seems to be going smoothly until he receives an assignment that will not only affect his life, but also the world order. He will then fall into a dangerous spiral that will take him far away from the real world.
Pages: 264
Publisher: ALIANZA EDITORIAL
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788411481625
RPP: 20,85 euros
