En octobre 2014 paraitra un nouveau roman de Patrick Rothfuss : The Slow Regard of Silent Things.

Il prendra place dans l'univers du Nom du vent et s'intéressera au personnage d'Auri. Ce sera un volume indépendant de la série Chronique du tueur de roi. Bragelonne proposera une VF dès novembre sous le titre La Musique du Silence. Patrick Rothfuss évoque ce roman dans cette interview en anglais et revient sur les raisons qui l'ont poussé à raconter l'histoire de ce personnage en particulier...

What reasons do you have for choosing Auri as this focus? 
Pat-rothfuss : Well, actually, I didn’t sit down to write a novella. I was trying to write a story for an anthology of George R.R. Martin’s, Rogues. I expected there to be a lot of traditional rogues in there; a lot of swashbuckling, a lot of conmen, rough and rugged types and a lot of James Bond type characters too. So, I go, ‘maybe I could tell a story about Auri as more of a trickster type character in more of a trickster kind of story’. So, I started writing it and it didn’t turn into a trickster type story… Instead it got longer and longer and stranger and stranger until eventually I was like, it’s just not going to work for this anthology… In the end I wrote a different story for that anthology, about Bas – who is perfect as a rogue – which left me with this other ‘thing’ which I just kind of developed out of the original story idea. Eventually I showed it to my publisher and she said ‘yeah – let’s print it’.