L’exaspération du pouvoir dans 2084. La fin du monde (2015) de Boualem Sansal
The Exasperation of Power in Boualem Sansal’s 2084. the End of the World (2015)

Summary/Abstract: Boualem Sansal’s 2084. The end of the world is a political anticipation published in France, in French, in 2015. This novel is very dark. It is a dystopia, a fictional fiction that describes a "cacotopia", one of the worst imaginary worlds that can occur. The action is projected in the distant future, after 2084, "a founding date [...] even if no one knew what it was", the narrator comments. The "end of the world" has taken place. A Great Holy War, "called the Char", has wiped out the old countries of the North, the United States and Europe. The southern countries are no longer a single entity, Abistan, the country of Abi, its prophet and its founder. It is a theocratic dictatorship pushed to the extreme. In this "country of believers", any form of freedom has disappeared. Total submission to a single god, called Yölah, is required from everyone. One day, an ordinary citizen, Ati, suddenly becomes aware of the state of "blindness" where he was. His lucidity is awaken. He seeks to understand how the "sublime order" of this highly authoritarian theocracy operates, based on the exasperation of a pure, deified power, and built on an original lie, on a radical fraud.

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