INTERVIEW
After the ants, the gods, place to cats. In Tomorrow Cats (2016), Bernard Werber plunged into the heads of four-legged companions. In this literary return, the writer publishes the sequel to this novel, His majesty of cats . In L'Equipée sauvage on Europe 1, he explains his approach.
"Watching my pussy ..."
The idea of the novel came to him simply: "by observing my cat". "It always seemed to me that this being was a kind of alien watching me at home," says the author of The Revolution of Ants . The writer has always loved to slip into the non-human to describe the world around him. "With a human thought, we go around in circles, so finally, taking a small step to the side and looking at how other non-human beings could analyze us, it seems to me to be an interesting act of philosophy," he says. he.
"I'm trying to get the same level of detachment that a cat can have"
To carry out his project, Bernard Werber consulted "biologists and scientists". "I ask them how animal thinking works and I try to be as faithful as possible to real information," he says. "I take the animals as they are and I try to have the same level of detachment that a cat can have," he says. One way to better observe our world, with another look.