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Titre :

The year of the flood

Auteurs :

Margaret Atwood, Auteur

Type de document :

texte imprimé

Editeur :

Virago press, 2010

ISBN/ISSN/EAN :

978-1-84408-564-4

Format :

88 p.

Langues:

Français

Mots-clés:

anglais : langue ; manipulation génétique ; extinction

Résumé :

The Year of the Flood is a continuation of, not exactly a sequel to, Oryx and Crake. Several characters from the earlier book appear, along with such institutions as God's Gardeners and the Corporations. The Gardeners, an eco-religious sect, farm rooftops, which can be defended from the gangs and marauders who infest the streets, and try to follow a way of harmony with nature through the breakdown of civilisation. Presented with irony and affection, the Gardeners are a vividly memorable invention. As for the Corporations, these are not the dear familiar corporations that now control our governments in a more or less surreptitious fashion. In the novel, no national governments appear to be functioning. The setting may be the upper Midwest of the US or Canada, but there is no geography, no history. The Corporations, and particularly their security arm CorpSeCorps, are in total control. As in the earlier book, all science and technology is Corporation-owned, in the service of furthering capitalist growth and keeping the populace unrevolutionary, while destroying the resources and ecological balances of the planet at an ever-increasing rate. Genetic manipulation has been busy producing useless or noxious monsters such as green rabbits, rakunks, and partly rational pigs.