Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... Ashes, Ashes (1943)by René Barjavel
Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Really not what a vegan, anti-natalist, feminist wants to read. I am disappointed in Barjavel. ( ) It is the kind of dystopian future stories I usually enjoy. We are in France, somewhere in the late 21st century. Society relies entirely on electricity and synthetically produced food. One day, suddenly, everything stops working. A young man, François, who somehow didn't believe in that automated society, retrieves his childhood love and escapes disaster-ridden Paris with a few survivors. They cross France, in the end literally wading through the ashes of a great fire that engulfed cities and country alike. When they finally reach the hero's childhood area, which is almost untouched by the disaster, they found a bucolic, primitive, un-technologised society. And it was that end, told mainly through an epilogue, that is somewhat annoying. François has become The Patriarch, he single-handedly rebuilt society, but on such paternalistic bases that it's hard not to feel it wasn't his ambition all along. It's an onverall enjoyable read for its subject matter, but it is very French, something I don't often go for. no reviews | add a review
Is contained inHas the adaptation
"'— Vous ne savez pas ce qui est arrivé ? Tous les moteurs d'avions se sont arrêtés hier à la même heure, juste au moment où le courant flanchait partout. Tous ceux qui s'étaient mis en descente pour atterrir sur la terrasse sont tombés comme une grêle. Vous n'avez rien entendu là-dessous ? Moi, dans mon petit appartement près du garage, c'est bien un miracle si je n'ai pas été aplati. Quand le bus de la ligne 2 est tombé, j'ai sauté au plafond comme une crêpe... Allez donc jeter un coup d'œil dehors, vous verrez le beau travail !'. 'Ravage', publié en 1943, ouvre la voie à la science-fiction en France." [Source : 4e de couv., tirage 2011] No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)848Literature French and related languages Miscellaneous French writingsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |