The Refusal of Silence (Erogements – book 2) is a novel in three parts.
It is a triptych of the same soul as seen in three of its incarnations.
Each portrait was written using different literary methods.
For the first portrait, 'Riptiles and Viverids', the author traveled to and lived in the country in which the story is set to better understand the people and their history.
An American Third World War draft dodger shelters in Vietnam and recalls his past lives as a soldier in both the Vietnam/American War and WW1.
For the second portrait, 'Pendleberry's Think-Cake' the author kept a dream diary over a period of 6 months, which he used to form the entirety of the story. You could say the story was 'written in his sleep'.
An underground faction take an aggressive, anti-government stance, despite the government being the most successful, fair and peaceful government in their history. The second incarnation of our protagonist, Pendleberry, is an artist member of the faction who fears he is being manipulated by some unknown malevolent force. He wishes to discover the origin of the messages he is inadvertently transmitting.
For the third and final portrait, 'The Refusal of Silence' the author, sequestered in his small apartment for a further 6 months, attempted to emulate the agoraphobic character of this particular incarnation.
These are letters written by the third incarnation; a man whose wife has gone missing on an exploratory space mission. He locks himself in his apartment in order to mirror her living conditions, and despite not knowing if she is receiving his messages or not he continues sending them.
