In 1954, Richard Matheson published
I Am Legend
, which produced an unforgettable film with Charlton Heston in the role of Colonel Neville, a lone man facing a horde of zombies in a devastated world.
In 2007, Cormac McCarthy received the Pulitzer Prize for
The Road
, the story of a father and a son, alone facing multiple perils after a kind of nuclear winter.
A huge bestseller which produced, once again, a film that could not be more depressing and heartbreaking with Viggo Mortensen.
This theme of survivor(s) in a chaotic world has, of course, inspired other novels and films.
Mad Max
(1979) by George Miller, in this register, described quite well the murderous madness, gratuitous, sadistic, of men let loose in packs in a universe without faith or law.
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Since then, the Covid epidemic has shown that reality can meet and exceed fiction, and that the entire planet can be overwhelmed by a virus.
Since then, the reality of ecological disaster (melting of glaciers, tsunamis, madness...
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