INTERVIEW
In 2016, Bernard Werber took us into the heads of our four-legged friends in Tomorrow Cats (2016). He publishes today the sequel, His majesty of cats , in which the conflict between rats and cats continues.
The point of departure of the writer is simple: we follow a cat "who understood that humans are finished and that the reign of cats must settle." In His majesty of cats , the reader finds himself at a very precise moment, when a community of humans and cats is created to fight rats.
"What could a cat think of a human who kills other humans?"
This fantasy story in two volumes owes its birth to a very real dramatic event: the attack of Bataclan, the evening of November 13, 2015. "I was writing another novel about immortality, and then when he There were the attacks, I told myself that I had to talk about it, "says the author of the Ants . "But we had to talk about it differently, because there was a very strong emotion in all media," recalls Bernard Werber.
The writer has stepped aside and offers to relive this terrible event in the light of the vision of a cat. "I thought, what could a cat think of a human who kills other humans for no reason?" Says Bernard Werber. "He's not trying to figure out who's doing what, because a cat can not analyze political issues," says the writer, "but it's just that humans have entered a suicidal phase for completely abstract reasons and that they have gone crazy. "