Thélyson Orélien's response to the uproar surrounding his novel "C'était ça ou mourir"

"This novel that I wrote

Since September 21, many things have been said about me. Some +experts+ are attacking my novel, attributing it to a non-human intelligence, and others, under this pretext or by revisiting old texts, are simply attacking me.

A writer speaks through his writings, and his writings speak for him. But silence has a price: by keeping quiet, I was allowing others to tell my story in my place.

I started writing +C'était ça ou mourir+ in the autumn of 2017, at a corner table in Laval (in Quebec, Editor's not