Resumen de Marc Dugain, écriture de l´histoire et portraits de monstres
In La Malédiction d´Edgar ("The Curse of Edgar") and Une Exécution ordinaire ("An Ordinary Execution"), Marc Dugain sheds a new light on 20th-century history and chooses to depict human monsters. Indeed, transforming Hoover and Stalin into fictional characters means gambling on a representation of the monstrous. Devoting a novel to each of those characters also suggests the simultaneous presence of darkness and fear throughout the 20th-century. The narrative strategies of the two novels draw on the interplay of darkness and light, of truth and falsehood, which are inherent in mind-control and the "iron grip of terror" (H. Arendt).
