Puissances de la fiction: comment renouer avec les vivants?
The Power of Fiction: How Can We Get Back in Touch with All Living Creatures?

Alain Damasio "Les Furtifs" (2019) and Pierre Ducrozet "Le Grand Vertige" (2020)

Author(s): Colette Camelin
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Damasio; Ducrozet; global warming; petroleum; ecocriticism; zoocriticism; ecological activists
Summary/Abstract: These fictions show the lack of contact with living creatures and try to re-establish these links. "Le Grand Vertige" is an ecological spy novel: Adam Thobias, professor of biology at Oxford, tries to organize scientific attempts to overcome the climate change. They all fail but a young woman learns how to reconnect with living creatures and human actions. The furtifs are fictitious animals, which live constant metamorphosis while they incorporate bits of their environment. The army hunts them but rebels protect them. In 2040 a connected ring enforced by the company (Orange) always controls citizens. The rebels and the furtifs succeed in overthrowing the oppressing order and free lively energies. This “ecological thriller” empowers its reader…

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