The Black Garden
The time of a tomb

What if growing old were legal ?

What if dying became natural again ?

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In a world obsessed with youth, performance, and immortality, Livie moves through the minutes of her existence, confronted by the fatigue of being alive and the hypocrisy of a society that hides death behind creams and slogans.

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From intimate fragility to collective absurdities, from social analysis to sensual utopias, this book explores fear, escape, and also the celebration of finitude.

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Five temporalities, five ways of looking at life and death:

 

• Minutes: the body and emotions.

• Hours: the satire of a world that refuses to die.

• Days: the analysis of a system that exploits the fear of endings.

• Months: the imagination of a death reintegrated and celebrated.

• Years: a manifesto for reclaiming life through finitude.

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A book that is at once incisive, humorous, tender, and radical,

reminding us that life only has meaning if we accept death.

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Warning: This book is not linear !

It blends novel, poetry, satire, and essay. Each section has its own rhythm: to feel, to laugh, to reflect, to dream, and to reveal. Chapters may be read in any order, depending on the mood of the day and the desire of the moment.

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A trilogy about the human experience.

III. The Black Garden — The Passage

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The Black Garden is the book of time. After the cry and the reconciliation comes the confrontation with finitude. It seeks neither to reassure nor to frighten, but to reintegrate death as a condition of life.

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Editorial Calendar :

Published on Easter Sunday – April 5, 2026

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