About the book: 2023 / “The Dress” is a book about how the world is going crazy, but love and humor can still save it. One evening, before Before setting the table, Isabelle gives her husband a dress. She wants Jean-Pierre to wear it to dinner. He can’t understand – is this a bad joke, is his wife sick or has the world changed so much? But soon the guests will arrive and the minutes will count. A series of phantasmagoric turns awaits Jean-Pierre: a flowered dress in a box, frightened guests, an attempt to strangle a neighbor (with the same dress). But more on that later. Jerome de Verdier questions the adequacy of what is happening around him and explores the relationships of couples, ridiculing both blissful progressives and gloomy conservatives. In mathematics and logic there is a method of reductio ad absurdum, or “reduction to the absurd” - this is a technique that proves the inconsistency of some opinions in such a way that either in itself or in the consequences arising from it a contradiction is revealed. Jerome de Verdier in his book “The Dress” applied this method to modern times, and the result was a novel filled with sharp dialogues, French humor, irony and grotesquery - a real triumph of the absurd. We can safely say that Jerome continues the tradition of Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.