Really not what a vegan, anti-natalist, feminist wants to read. I am disappointed in Barjavel. ( )

It is the kind of dystopian future stories I usually enjoy. We are in France, somewhere in the late 21st century. Society relies entirely on electricity and synthetically produced food. One day, suddenly, everything stops working. A young man, François, who somehow didn't believe in that automated society, retrieves his childhood love and escapes disaster-ridden Paris with a few survivors. They cross France, in the end literally wading through the ashes of a great fire that engulfed cities and country alike. When they finally reach the hero's childhood area, which is almost untouched by the disaster, they found a bucolic, primitive, un-technologised society. And it was that end, told mainly through an epilogue, that is somewhat annoying. François has become The Patriarch, he single-handedly rebuilt society, but on such paternalistic bases that it's hard not to feel it wasn't his ambition all along.
It's an onverall enjoyable read for its subject matter, but it is very French, something I don't often go for. ( )

imbarazzante,soprattutto il finale...o si era stancato il traduttore,o lo scrittore. ( )

Pas aussi bon que Malevil par Robert Merle dans le genre. ( )