L’Opium du ciel by Jean Noël Orengo: the spiritual  quest of a drone, between asceticism of carnal  pleasures and exhibition of bodies Cover Image

L’Opium du ciel de Jean­Noël Orengo: la quête spirituelle d’un drone, entre ascèse des plaisirs charnels et exhibition des corps
L’Opium du ciel by Jean Noël Orengo: the spiritual quest of a drone, between asceticism of carnal pleasures and exhibition of bodies

Author(s): Thomas Diette
Subject(s): Aesthetics, French Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Orengo; Genesis; drone; desire; knowledge;

Summary/Abstract: In his novel entitled L’Opium du ciel (2017), Jean-Noël Orengo narrates the adventures of a special drone owning a conscience. This steel creature will suffer some modifications which will revise his former identity. The libidinous machine becomes a spiritual entity. He understands that the catastrophe is imminent because of the depravity of all values. Nevertheless, there is still hope: the cycle of metamorphoses will erase all. The drone will be the prophet of this renascence. The old world and its violence related to sexual desire will be cleared in favour of a more harmonious Earth.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 87-102
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French
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