And if nature was embodied, what would she do when she saw men destroy her?
She would take revenge.
In a book written by six talented authors - Sophie Adriansen, Marie Alhinho, Marie Pavlenko, Coline Pierré, Cindy Van Wilder, Flore Vesco - Mother Nature takes back her rights.
It has many names and various forms: monkeys that hunt humans, deadly typhoons, insects that eat cellulose and paper, the main source of literature ...
The short texts respond to each other as in an exquisite corpse.
Thus, the reader navigates from one story to another in the great history of the world.
We land in poetic land, through critical words reminiscent of those of Verhaeren in his Tentacular Cities, then we land in dystopia, on the border of a Pierre Boulle and a Suzanne Collins.
Throughout this reading, which combines fantastic and tragic texts, the questions flow: why are there no more insects in the countryside?
Why do we agree to destroy the flora with oil palms for spread?
How many more deaths will it take before the authorities react?
Neither lesson-giver nor miserableist, this inventive work is a bottle of hope thrown into the sea.
Elle est le vent furieux, by Sophie Adriansen, Marie Alhinho, Marie Pavlenko, Coline Pierré, Cindy Van Wilder, Flore Vesco, Flammarion jeunesse, 320 p., 15 euros. From 13 years old.
Youth Flammarion