A fantastic adventure between the afterlife and the living world

[Who killed me?] Gabriel Wells, the protagonist of the novel, opens his eyes with this sentence in mind.
He is a popular mystery writer who is about to publish a novel about death.
As he heads to the bistro where he usually works, he suddenly realizes he can't smell anything and rushes to the hospital.
But the doctor treats him like he doesn't exist, he doesn't see himself in the mirror, and he jumps out of the window without any problems.
He is dead.
Gabriel is convinced that his sudden death was murder.
A few suspects come to mind.
Luckily, he meets Lucy Filipini, a medium who can hear his voice.
Gabriel, who has become a wandering soul, begins to investigate in the afterlife, and Lucy, a psychic, begins to dig up the truth in the living world.

A Book Within a Book, The Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge

This work features names that will feel familiar to Berber fans.
It is Edmond Wells who wrote the 『Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge』 in the work.
Encyclopedia entries that Gabriel referenced while writing the novel pop up here and there.
From French burial customs to author Arthur Conan Doyle, magician Houdini, and the axolotl.
Even in the midst of a tense development, the encyclopedia adds interest without breaking the flow of the story.
You can look forward to the activities of the Wells family, which have continued since "Ants."

An autobiographical protagonist who resembles the author himself

He majored in law in college and wrote various feature articles as a reporter for a weekly magazine before debuting as a writer.
A person who had interests in various fields such as criminology, biology, and psychics, and was a natural storyteller from a young age.
A popular author who is not well-received by French critics who treat genre literature as inferior literature, but who enjoys the support of the general readership by releasing new books at a steady rhythm every year.
This description is about Gabriel Wells, the protagonist of Death, but it also applies to Berber himself.
To that extent, this work has strong autobiographical elements.
The most powerful thing that Gabriel Wells and Bernard Werber have in common is their genuine love of writing.
As soon as he realizes that he is dead, Gabriel laments that he can no longer write.
Berber, who has said in various interviews that "writing saves me," once again reveals his love for writing through Gabriel's mouth.

Writing saves me.
This moment is the only moment when I exist as my true self.
Only in this space, I do not follow events, but rather create them.
― From 『Death』