'The Gargoyle' - A Fantastical Story

A gargoyle is a grotesque sculpted stone which prevents the flow of rainwater to run down masonry walls. In the past, people believed that the elongated fantastic animals used to protect people from bad spirits or from the anger of nature.

'The Gargoyle' novel by Andrew Davidson represents the drama of a successful man who believes that nothing can stop his ascension. A character without a a name, a suggestive idea of the Canadian author, is an admired porn star, loved by all the women. After a car accident, provoked by the character's cocaine addiction, the young man suffers terrible burns all over his body and ends up in a hospital.

Andrew Davidson describes the horrible sensations with a grotesque realism, that might sometimes give the reader the impression of reading about hell itself. The character's career is destroyed and the drama begins.

'The Gargoyle' becomes now a book about love. In the hospital, Marianne Enghel, a patient in the psychiatry department falls in love with the porn star and pays for his medical treatment. Later, he finds out that the woman is a gargoyle designer and that they met 700 years ago in a monastery in Germany.

The story becomes fantastical, with passages about their past related by the mentally disturbed woman.

The Gargoyle novel also has a lot of historical details, medical details and the writing is definitely captivating. The Canadian author packs up the story of a few centuries not like a literature magician or a pearl fisherman, but like a professional drifter who knows how to catch the trawl.

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson has 33 chapters, exactly like Dante's trip into the Inferno. The first 50 pages are thrilling and keeps the reader very curious for more.

The ending is very emotional and it might be considered some kind of strange happy-ending.