You will croak like the others

By Denis CHEYNET

You will believe you're different. You will believe you can survive. But in the end, you will croak like the others. Tu crèveras comme les autres ( You Will Croak Like the Others ) is a literary shockwave--a dystopian novel written entirely in the future tense , and in the second person . This is not a tale of zombies or robots, but of ordinary people in a collapsing world. A world where comfort becomes a trap, and denial becomes a death sentence. In precise, haunting prose, Denis Cheynet tells the story of you --a man navigating the unraveling of civilisation. There is no prophecy, only consequence. There is no escape, only endurance. And yet, page after page, you will believe you can make it through. Until the truth becomes inescapable. This is not a thriller, not a work of speculative fiction, but a mirror turned toward the reader. With no names and no heroes, it strips away all illusion. What remains is an unforgiving meditation on collapse--personal, societal, planetary. And the terrifying clarity that, perhaps, it's already too late. Originally published in French in 2018 and praised by critics in Le Figaro Magazine , L'Express , Causeur , and Valeurs Actuelles , this cult novel was initially rejected by publishers for being too dark, too radical, too stylistically unconventional. It gained a loyal readership through word-of-mouth, drawing in those who sensed that the future it describes is not fiction, but a sharp extrapolation of our present. This English edition is translated by the author himself , with the discreet help of his AI assistant--not to replace the writer, but to preserve his voice across languages. It took years, and it cost something. But the result is here: intact, intacting. Tu crèveras comme les autres is not a book you read to escape the world. It is a book that demands you face it. It is a slap in the face, a whispered warning, a farewell note from a dying system. For readers of Orwell, Bradbury, McCarthy, and Houellebecq. For those who know the end has already begun--and want to know what comes after.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6D69VL6
• ISBN13: 9798281290609
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 238 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.3"