The raising of the damned

" I am the damned archangel, forced to observe the decay of a world in which i feel a hostage among this lost generation. " Such are the first lines of Vincent Blénet's new novel The Raising of the Damned. This book is both an initiatory journey and a spiritual quest. The authoridentifies with Archangel Gabriel who " has lost the notion of his own eternity ". He is an immortal in God's service and he tries to help people when they meet death.
This text is a desperate hymn to love since the author says he feels more " at home " meditating among the tombs of the past than being in our today's world. A forlorn and touching search for love and recognition. He writes : " I wiet like a dead rose ".