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Gaïa, by Valérie Clo: 2050, storm announced on France

2022-05-18T14:26:57.645Z


REVIEW - The story of two sisters in a country shaken by violent climatic events. Most post-apocalyptic novels, Cormac McCarthy's La Route , Jean Hegland's Dans la forêt or Bernard Quiriny's Vanishing Village , to name but a few, tell what happens to the survivors of a planetary collapse, but do not don't dwell on how the disaster happened. Valérie Clo took another side. To discover Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection Like the famous Ravage of Barjavel, Gaïa


Most post-apocalyptic novels,

Cormac McCarthy's

La Route

, Jean Hegland's

Dans la forêt or Bernard Quiriny's Vanishing

Village

, to name but a few, tell what happens to the survivors of a planetary collapse, but do not don't dwell on how the disaster happened.

Valérie Clo took another side.

To discover

  • Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection

Like the famous

Ravage

of Barjavel,

Gaïa

recounts events that take place around 2050. But Barjavel was writing in 1942. A century separated him from the world he imagined.

The one described by Valérie Clo is much closer.

It looks awfully like ours, except that freak weather events have multiplied, gaining in intensity and sparking a frenzy of authoritarian and haphazard action on the part of governments.

A gradual collapse

Contrary to the Hollywood imagination which stages sudden and absolute disasters, it is with a much more realistic collapse that the novelist confronts her characters, a collapse...

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Source: lefigaro

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