Marc, by Benjamin Stock: the conjuring of fools

It’s a crazy novel with an absurd scenario which received the prestigious Flore prize, awarded in the brasserie of the same name. David is a thirty-year-old Parisian, founder of a start-up with unclear objectives of inclusiveness and digital transition, the “Share Factory”. Shaken by a meeting with a young Dostoyevskian waiter who questions him about the meaning of life, he begins to go through an existential crisis. It was then that one of his employees introduced him to a clandestine community of Marc Lévy readers.

His followers meet in secret to read between the lines the messages that the popular novelist deliberately sows in his work. The author of What if it was true Would he be a dissident calling to undergroundly foment a global communist revolution against the “system”? Benjamin Stock, 35, says he was inspired for this first novel by Quanon’s American conspiracy scenario. He seriously burned through the 25 pounds…