Here are some fresh news from the Walrus! And you will not be disappointed…
Today we are launching the first title of our fiction catalog “Je suis Rage.” First novel by young author Guillermo Alverde, the book finds its inspirations in dark fantasy author Lautréamont and his Chants de Maldoror, Alice in Wonderland and in the craziest stories written by Richard Matheson. Follow the adventures of Hermann Heliophas, misanthropic and unlucky hero whose anger, hatred and disgust suddenly personified will spread desolation throughout the city.
This novel, exclusively digital, is innovative in more than a way!
First, and especially for the Walrus, it is the first epub ebook to have a video cover !
The reader will, like with a movie trailer, delve into the visual world of the author and get a glimpse of the story. Genuine literary teaser, video cover is intended for Walrus to become a trademark in most of its future publications.
Second feature of the book, you will discover the novel at various stages of its creation: creating a timeline in the writing, the reader no longer has access to the final text only, but also to bonus alternative versions, previous or subsequent, modified, shortened or enriched but always very different, in a period expending over four years. Through this new reading experience, discover with the Walrus how a novel is created. In a digital book, without the problems linked to printing, size and length, it is now possible: the “Je suis Rage » file weighs the equivalent of a thousand pages… and it weighs nothing in your pocket.
Finally, in the book’s appendices, you will discover many scans from Guillermo Alverde’s notebook, a wealth of ideas and experimentations, contributing to the genesis of a novel like “Je suis Rage”. Full of drawings, writing and drama sketches, the notebooks are readable in their original presentation.
The novel is now available on iBookstore, at a launching price (and therefore temporary) of 1.99 euros. It’s time to download a bit of reading for the weekend, right?