Les yeux fermés : roman

A former lover of books, the narrator once spent hours wandering the aisles of the Bibliothèque Nationale, devouring dictionaries and encyclopedias with a child's delight. His memory is a catalog of the quiet hum of lamps, the rustle of paper, and the soft authority of the archivist’s voice. Now blind, he can no longer enter that grand hall, and each day is a struggle to piece together the world he once knew through sight and print.

He turns to the memory of Michelle, the woman who once guided his fingers through the pages he can no longer open. Her presence lingers in the sentences he repeats to himself, a whispered promise to “enchant his mal.” As he contemplates a journey he set out on for her, his thoughts hover between lingering regret and a fragile hope that some inner light might still lead him forward.