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The Cloud Theory was published in 2005 and immediately won four prestigious awards, including the Prix Maurice-Genevoix 2005 and the Prix du Style 2005. What will the reader find in it?

First of all, it's a non-standard narrative. The author, Stéphane Odegui (who is also a lecturer in film history), inoculates the literary work with cinema: all the storylines that build the lace of cloud theory are broken into fragments and edited like a film. We don't even realise how we are captivated by the author's style: dramatic scenes depicted in a slightly detached and sometimes ironic manner are more impressive than thousands of exclamation points.

Secondly, there is undeniable humanism. Seemingly random and not always real stories about a strange scientist, a boy from Hiroshima, a Parisian librarian, and, of course, clouds, miraculously lead us to existential questions, the relevance of which for humanity does not diminish over time. On the contrary. The human race "cannot be destroyed anymore... unless it does it itself."