Chrysalids - John Wyndham - Livres - New York Review Books - 9781590172926 - 18 novembre 2008
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Chrysalids

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The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God?s creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much singing of hymns. Abnormal humans (who are not really human) are also condemned to destruction?unless they succeed in fleeing to the Fringes, that Wild Country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable and the devil does his work. David grows up ringed by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.

At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce h im to a new, hitherto unimagined world of freedom.

The Chrysalids is a perfectly conceived and constructed work form the classic era o science fiction, a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when religious and scientific dogmatism are both on the march, as when it was written during the cold war.

Médias Livres     Paperback Book   (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé 18 novembre 2008
ISBN13 9781590172926
Éditeurs New York Review Books
Pages 224
Dimensions 129 × 202 × 12 mm   ·   227 g
Langue et grammaire Anglais  
Contributeur Christopher Priest

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