The range of Michel Rio's creativity is very wide: from children's fairy tales to scientific essays, but he gained fame as a novelist. His books have received five literary awards in France and have been published in many countries. The mini-novel “Archipelago” is a cascade of paradoxes. A bizarre set of circumstances changes the lives of three heroes in one day: the unapproachable mistress of an aristocratic college, a brilliant but ugly librarian and an ambitious young student.