Jean-Pierre Ostende's Novel 'Et voraces ils couraient dans la nuit' Explores Corporate Paranoia

Jean-Pierre Ostende's novel 'Et voraces ils couraient dans la nuit,' published by Éditions Gallimard, revisits the character Jacques Bergman, an employee of the 'Explorateur Club' from Ostende's earlier work 'Présence' (2007). Bergman worked at DARWIN, a subsidiary specializing in corporate auditing. The story follows his investigation at PETRA, a leading dependency management firm experiencing an internal crisis of unknown origin. The narrative, told from the perspective of a confessing witness, adopts a detective tone laced with caustic mockery. It reveals the infernal mechanisms of the precautionary principle and collective guilt. Ostende uses advertising language and sampling techniques, blending factual objectivity with alarmist media jargon. The novel questions whether resistance is possible in a world where anonymous addicts and spotlight personalities speak the same language of fear of missing out.