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Sto caricando le informazioni... All Fools' Day (1966)di Edmund Cooper
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Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiMoewig Science Fiction (3524)
Summer 1971. A marvellous spell of weather, idyllic in its warmth. But new sun-spots had appeared; and with their appearance came a significant increase in the suicide rate. The wonderful summer continued for a decade: simultaneously Radiant Suicide reached endemic proportions, the only people to escape its effects being the supposed transnormals, the obsessionals, the eccentrics and the psychopaths. These were to be the only remnants of the ancient 'homo sapiens' . . . Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Dans ce "jour des fous", tout s'est effondré et l'on voit comment un individu, soucieux de sa propre existence, va apprendre à rebâtir un semblant de civilisation à travers les péripéties qui seront les siennes et en rencontrant d'autres "communautés" frappées soit par le désespoir, soit la folie, soit le retour à un ordre politique local qui oscille entre la féodalité et le fondamentalisme religieux. Le protagoniste de l'histoire ne cherche qu'à vivre, tout simplement, et également de redécouvrir l'amour. De fil en aiguille, il va se trouver projeter à la tête d'une grande communauté. Le roman ne conclut pas sur une note optimiste. L'état de chaos est permanent et la guerre semble redevenue le niveau le plus élevé de la politique.
Sans atteindre l'excellent niveau de "La terre demeure", ce "jour des fous" est d'excellente facture par l'imagination et l'inventivité de son auteur. Edmund Cooper décrit des situations très réaliste et brutales qui font froid dans le dos car nous savons, dans notre for intérieur, qu'elles peuvent être réelles. (