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Henri L. Matos is the author of literary-philosophical psychological thrillers operating at the intersection of identity, memory, and systemic control. In his novels, consciousness and memory are not treated as certainties but as the fragile material from which selves are made and erased.

His debut novel Das Residuale Selbst (The Residual Self) establishes the genre of Ontological Systems Fiction, asking: what remains of the self when the system is perfect? His subsequent works deepen this universe: forensic psychologists who become the subjects of the very experiments they investigate. Memory manipulation as an instrument of power. Perfection as a threat to humanity.

Matos writes in the tradition of European existentialism. Kafkaesque system
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The Castle is Kafka's most radical exploration of the inaccessibility of power. K. is not fighting against an evil system, but against one that simply has no entrance door for him. What makes the book so modern is that the system is not cruel. It is ...more
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Franz Kafka
“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”
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Albert Camus
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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George Orwell
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
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“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.”
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