We have rarely seen in the same person such an opposition between a soft, almost inaudible voice and such combative words: this is Boualem Sansal, a rebellious but calm man.
An apparent tranquility;
because, when we begin to listen to it, an anguish is heard.
The writer resembles those whistleblowers who can no longer bear warning when every day proves them right.
This is what struck us again on this late January afternoon, when we met him in the offices of his publishing house, Gallimard.
Sansal has just published a novel with the evocative title:
Living: The Countdown
, a kind of apocalypse where there are only 780 days left to live.
Like “chosen ones”, a few humans are then called to board a spaceship.
The writer chooses dystopia or science fiction to decipher our era and its errors.
Since the time we have known him, in 1999, and the publication of his first novel,
The Oath…
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