This book helps us rethink our relationship with time and death.
not as a frightening end, but as a condition of all life.
Book presentation
What if growing old were legal? What if dying became natural again?
In a world obsessed with youth, performance, and immortality, Livie lives through the minutes of her existence, confronted by the weariness of life and the hypocrisy of a society that hides death behind creams and slogans. From intimate fragility to collective absurdities, from societal analysis to sensual utopias, this book explores fear, escape, but also the celebration of finitude.
Five temporalities, five ways of looking at life and death:
Minutes: the body and emotions.
Hours: a satire of a world that refuses to die.
Days: an analysis of a system that exploits the fear of the end.
Month: the imaginary of a death reintegrated and celebrated.
Years: a manifesto to rehabilitate life through finitude.
A book that is at once incisive, funny, tender, and radical.
which reminds us that life only has meaning if we accept death.
This book is not linear!
It blends novel, poetry, satire, and essay.
Each section has its own rhythm: to feel, laugh, reflect, dream and reveal.
Editorial calendar:
Book published on April 5, 2026 - Easter
Ebook - The Black Garden
Title: The Black Garden - The Time of a Tomb
Author: Wendie De Kandiss
Collection: The Unruly Audit
Genre: Polyscopic literature / Contemporary literary work
Registration: SDGL - BNF: 05.04.26
Formats & Prices:
E-book: €5.50
Edition (Book-Object): €19.50
Print Edition Specifications:
Binding type: Hardcover
Cover finish: Matte
Size: A5 (148 x 210 mm)
Number of pages: 129 pages
Interior color: Black and white
Paper (Standard Edition): 60#
Language: French
Print on lulu.com
Work profile:
Audience: From age 16.
Target audience: Readers of experimental literature.
Image credit: Alexander Krivitskiy (Pexels).
