Babelio posted a review of Incalculable by Antoine Cantenot

Chemins de tr@verse editions are now participating in Babélio's Masse critique operation, by submitting works for reader criticism.

Antoine Cantenot's book, Incalculable , received the following review, which we would like to share, as it sums up this unclassifiable and fascinating book so well.

"When I asked to be selected to read this book during the last Critical Mass operation, I didn't really know what to expect. The back cover had aroused my curiosity, but I wondered what was behind all these enigmatic questions and what would be the main theme of the book: scientific, historical, philosophical, religious?
After reading the book, I can't really answer, for me "Incalculable" is also "unclassifiable" because it deals with all of that at once, and it's fascinating!
I totally agree with the publisher's description when he says "in this astonishingly intelligent novel, Antoine Cantenot juggles ancient history, scholarly texts, religious thought, science, but also the most significant episodes of our contemporary history."
This makes it a difficult book to summarize, especially without giving away some of the mystery. I will just say that it is a two-thousand-year quest to find what Socrates had discovered about the nature of man.
But don't be afraid to start reading this book, it is completely understandable even if it sometimes deals with philosophical and scientific concepts, it is fascinating, very pleasant to read, we share Carl's quest and we want to know and understand, a bit like in a detective novel of a very particular type.
To lighten and make the story more lively, I also really liked that a large part of it was written in the form of a diary (of different protagonists) and that we move from one era to another to add each time an element of understanding to the whole.
At times, this book reminded me a little of the comic book "The Secret Triangle" that I loved, I don't know if the author would appreciate the analogy, but it came to mind at several points in the story.
My favorite parts are the ones set in antiquity, and the meeting with Alan Turing , the inventor of computing. But the whole book is really high quality.
I therefore recommend that you read Incalculable and I thank Babelio and Editions Chemins de traverse for allowing me to discover this astonishing novel."