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.
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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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