Amin Maalouf, dreaming of a better world
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Amin Maalouf in studio at RFI (October 2020).
© RFI / Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
32 min
Lebanese writer, Amin Maalouf is both the author of novels such as Le rocher de Tanios (Prix Goncourt 1993) and essays, such as Murderous Identities and Le déséquilibement du monde.
Translated into around fifty languages, he has been a member of the Académie française since 2011. His new novel Nos frères unexpected, published by Grasset, is a worried observation of our world, but a message of hope for our future.
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Cover of Amin Maalouf's new novel © Grasset
"Alec, a middle-aged designer, and Eve, the best-selling novelist of a unique mythical book, are the only occupants of a tiny islet on the Atlantic coast. They don't see each other, until one day an inexplicable breakdown all means of communication forced them out of their jealous loneliness.How
is this blackout
?
Could the planet have been the victim of a cataclysm
? Threats of nuclear conflict and large-scale terrorism were already looming. Would there have been, somewhere in the world, a devastating slippage
? What about the nearby archipelago
? And the country
? And the rest of the planet
?
Alec will gradually untie the thread of the mystery Thanks to his old friend Moro, who became one of the close advisers to the President of the United States, he manages to reconstruct the precise course of events. If we have escaped the disaster, he discovers, it is in a manner so strange and so unexpected, that history will never be able to resume its course before.
renco the
Our tumultuous interplay of our disoriented contemporaries with “
unexpected brothers
” who claim to be from ancient Greece, and who knew how to acquire a much more advanced medical knowledge than ours, makes the dramatic power of this novel, while giving it looks like a modern tale.
Through fiction and parable, the author treats here in a romantic way the major subjects approached in several of his essays
(Murderous identities, Le naufrage des civilizations).
"
(Presentation of the Grasset editions)
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