Marianne tells a number of stories about her supposed history stretching back centuries. The affection between them grows until they decide to move in with one another.
Nevertheless, the man likes Marianne’s company enough to entertain her increasingly bizarre notions. The man also believes she may be schizophrenic because she insists that the two of them were friends five centuries ago, which the man believes is impossible.
She is a sculptor who suffers from manic depression. His suicidal thoughts subside, however, after meeting a woman in the hospital named Marianne Engel. Eventually, he decides to commit suicide. Now a burn victim and a drug addict whose grip on reality is beginning to slip, the man begins to question whether it’s worth it to go on living. He also continues to hallucinate and possesses strange ideas about his body: for instance, in his mind there is a snake that has made a home in the man’s spinal cord. In the process of recovering in a hospital, he is administered morphine for his pain and, before long, he is addicted to the drug. Unfortunately, the man now has burns over a significant portion of his body. The body of water is deep enough to extinguish the flames but not so deep that he drowns. He accepts that he is going to die, but then suddenly his life is saved after the car teeters into a nearby body of water. The man survives the fall, but his car ignites on fire.
In a panic over the arrow attack, he swerves off the road and his car plummets into a ravine below. He believes that people are shooting a massive number of arrows at his car while he drives. When he first arrives in the book, he is hallucinating while driving as a result of having consumed alcohol and a number of drugs. We learn that he is an atheist and also a former actor in hardcore pornographic films. At the beginning of the book, the reader meets an unnamed protagonist. Published in 2008, it tells two stories in two different time-frames: One concerns a former porn star at the end of his rope, while the other takes place at a Fourteenth Century monastery in Germany. The Gargoyle is the debut novel by Canadian novelist Andrew Davidson.
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