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Loading... Desperate Games (original 1971; edition 1973)by Pierre Boulle
Work InformationDesperate Games by Pierre Boulle (1971)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Bien que très descriptif au début, ce roman démontre les échecs personnels et professionnels des Hommes Politiques a gourverner un pays. Fort de ce constat, les Scientifiques profitent de cette situation pour assouvir leurs propres ambitions en créant un nouveau monde dans lequel vont resurgir les instincts les plus primaires de l'Homme. Oscillant entre horreur du genre humain et capacités d'innovation , le dénouement de l'histoire laisse sans voix. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Long before Battle Royale or The Hunger Games, the author of The Planet of the Apes imagined a world governed by science and brutality gone mad in this long-neglected, dystopian sci-fi classic, now in a new translation Despairing at the state of world degeneration, a group of the world's most renowned intellectuals form the new Scientific World Government, aiming to put the world to rights. Elected into power, they quickly start making changes for the better, eliminating world hunger and cancer, encouraging scientific thought, and banning frivolous entertainment. But while congratulating themselves on a job well done, they fail to notice that actually, people are not happy. The suicide rate has sky-rocketed and, strangely, it turns out the public wants a little risk and conflict in their lives. So to cater to the masses, the Department of Psychology forms a plan: they will stage an entertainment show the likes of which the world has never seen before. It starts with gladiatorial style battles, bloodthirsty and brutal, where the victors become celebrities of unseen proportions, and quickly escalates into entire historical battle re-enactments involving chemical warfare and mass destruction. The Scientific World Government has unleashed a monster. What has the world let itself in for? No library descriptions found.
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