Resumo de The Walled By Serge Brussolo

Will you escape this trap?Set: A building where atrocious crimes were committed years before. The story goes as follows: several victims would have been walled inside the impressivebuilding, whose very height seemed to defy the laws of nature; the building's mad architect, someone named Malestrazza, had suddenly disappeared during a police siege inside the buidling itself. Disappeared? Dead? So many questions since that day. Dead? For some inhabitants of the buildings, this does not seem a suitable option. Malestrazza is not dead. But for sure, wherever he is, he and his building have become a legend. Mathias, an old man who knew the architect, believes that the latter is still inside the building and that he goes out at night to commit crimes and to feed the walls of the building live bodies - yes, those victims are walled in alive and chocked (hence the title)-. And the architect's experiments seem to prove that this practice is in fact required. You find itmacabre?...Yes, it is rather. But, let me explain the theory behind this, according to Malestrazza, whose ideas were pure genius but generally misunderstood by society, live bodies should be integrated to the construction of a building to make it stronger and more resistant. To time, pollution, earthquakes. He wanted his building to last forever, anchored in the ground and regularly fed. This technique might seem a little barbaric but the truth is that buildings surrounding that one suffered damages at each seism when our building did not.Thisleads toa question, who feeds the building then since Malestrazza disappeared? Will the building collapse with the next earthquake? Has it already weakened?This is the context set for the arrival of a young journalist, Jeanne. She is actually investigating the mysterious events that had taken place some 10 years before and she will discover that what seems to be is not always what it is, and that a tormenter can actually become the victim of its own creation.I have met this book by chance, during a visit to a library, and it is, in my opinion, the best book I have read in 2006 (andI have read quite a few...). The long descriptions in this book are far from boring as they can sometimes be, and the suspense is intense and catchy. It is an excellent book, just like any otherbook by this author.

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