Stéphane Ratti is professor emeritus of late antiquity history at the University of Burgundy-Franche-Comté. Latest work published
:
History of Augustus and other pagan historians
(Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gallimard, 2022).
In his novel
Soumission
, published on the same day of the attack on the
Charlie Hebdo
newspaper , January 7, 2015, Michel Houellebecq announced the arrival in power, in France, of a legally elected Muslim president.
Four years later, in his novel
Sérotonine
, published in 2019, the novelist described a peasant revolt leading, in France, to the blocking of roads and a violent clash between the police and farmers.
This meeting between current events and Houellebecq's novels gave him the image of a Cassandra, this character from ancient mythology always lucid but never listened to, or even that of a "mage".
In
Serotonin
, the hero of the novel offers an economic analysis of the peasant stagnation and the discouragement of farmers…
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