The novel is currently on display at the Insoumise Library, 2033 blvd. St-Laurent (south of Sherbrooke, eastern slope) at 18,25$. You can also buy it using credit card, check or other by clicking here

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Details...

L'Aube Noire, in french only. 5.5'' x 8.5'' format , 440 pages, 100% recycled paper, soft cover, in color. 4 color pages inside.

Synopsis

Erynie the painter, and Malik the poet are two lovers devoted to subversion and revolt. He moves back with her in the Megapolis with their friends Cybèle, the opera singer, and Henrik, artisan. At this point, a World Congress is to take place by the fascist elite, whom the radicals intend to face in screams and in blood. From this tragedy will rise the trials of the four, and through rage and defiance, the coming of an elusive End : the birth of the Black Dawn.

More Info

The Black Dawn project all started in 2003 after the editing of the Last Candle. Raven had wanted to approach certain fascinating themes ever since the creation of the former novel. Out of the numerous critiques aimed at the Last Candle came the necessity of deep change and the purer vision of the Black Dawn : a dark, lyrical journey of a particularly violent softness. An ever-changing structure, fragmented, with distorted sentences and four sensitive, equally present characters. About six months of conception later, Raven left for Ireland from whence Laëmas had just moved to live for about months where he'd start composing the Dawn (you can actually read, at the start of the book, a poem on the first page he wrote, signed with his own blood), of which he wrote almost half. Back in Montreal, he kept on writing and Laëmas started working on the cover (which took him a year to complete!), until the autumn of 2004 where the final touches were lain and the last drawings were finished. This is when the video "Vengeance" (which was supposed to be presented at a Lucioles viewing for the Montreal militant scene but never made it due to technical problems). Louise-Caroline Bergeron then agreed to start the immense correction/revision work in december (which pretty much saved us!). Then started the publication hell with printers AGMV Marquis, when every day came with its own unpredicted apocalypse and we had to solve problem after problem, meet surreal deadlines, make the impossible our of nothing, take in extremis decisions. This is what happens when supposed amateurs (us) work with bureaucrates (them) and that we both have to conform to a complex, procedural production system.

During the three months that followed the launching party, we fashionned a theatrical play to be performed for the even, with the wonderful talent of Fred, Marie-Eve, Louise-Caroline and Lydia, not to mention Yannie who arranged and practised the song of Loreleï while stuck in Rimouski. There was eight of us in total to perform the play, and we rehearsed on sunday evenings in a UQAM room after closing time. Integrating the sound effects proved to be particularly tricky... but ultimately, on the same morning as the launching party the 220 Black Dawn books were delivered at Raven's home, and on thursday night, febuary 24th 2005, with the help of JF on lighting, we performed at Café Chaos the play before some fifty people and officially lauched the novel. Then we celebrated our arses off until the early hours, completely pissed ! The whole event was an unbelievable success and we are all eager to organize another event for the next project...

You can view the 35min. play by clicking here

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