L’Équilibre des paradoxes de Michel Pagel : quatre types de déformati on de la réalité

Résumé

Born in Paris in 1961, Michel Pagel is a French science fiction and fantasy writer. L’Équilibre des paradoxes, novel published in 1999, is classed as an example of steampunk, current flowing directly from science fiction. The steampunk texts mix two different periods: the past, specifically the nineteenth or early twentieth century, and the future. This world, which oscillates between the past and the future, also mix the real with the imaginary. The authors take advantage of realism to describe in detail the reality, but this reality is certainly changed and distorted by different means. In L’Équilibre des paradoxes, Pagel creates a highly distorted world. In this novel, we find four types of reality deformation: the deformation of time, space, characters and narrative deformation.