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Quinzinzinzili is a Romance of policy-fiction or, if one prefers, of Science-fiction, published in 1935, sometimes considered as a against-Utopia (also called dystopie). Through its book, Régis Messac notes that peace and the life mode which he would have liked for humanity appear chimerical. For the American Pebble Méhauté, this novel of social criticism devotes “the painful expression of a being which feels impotent to change the human condition”.

Summary

a return to the state of nature

“At the beginning of Quinzinzinzili Régis Messac extrapolates the latent conflicts of the nations during the time of the Entre-deux-guerres. At the end of a world apocalyptic conflagration, which destroys any form of life on the surface of the ground, the author tells then how a man, one Your pessimism has for him a high literary tradition and facts as bright as innumerable… I do not believe that your assumption is that which has the most chance to be carried out II remainder than it has some of them; and it is enough to justify your bloody contempt and your humor with vitriol. That those of your similar of which you froisseriez susceptibility want to be well looked in the ice and to reflect. ”

Critical

Some hidden tenderness

“The topic of Quinzinzinzilli was taken again by some writers, and in particular by two prices Goncourt: Roger Ikor with the Great ways (Albin Michel) and Robert Blackbird with Malevil (Gallimard). It is summarized in a sentence: a war causes the disappearance of the human race; but some share an small group has escaped with the extermination and the history sets out again to zero. (…) The humor is there squeaking, but for which knew the author well, there is also some tenderness hidden in this novel. ”

pessimistic Préfiguration

“The novels of Governed Messac are the préfigurations which its pessimism traced, or the painting of the mediums of which it had seized the ridiculous land-mark under the brilliant frontage of conventions and the rites, it did not have a great faith in the man: Quinzinzinzilli describes the world after the final war. I tasted this book little. ”

Prophecies and social satires

“An often bitter pessimism animates anticipation which, today still, appears excellent, especially the topic has however been standardized for a few years. But we will say that it is an active pessimism there, that of the seizing and imposing warning statements implying (this against the liking of the author was) a subsistence of hope in the human reason and its sensitivity to prophecies and social satires. ”

a “Swift” of Charentes

“The humor and the alacrity of the author make wonder there, while at the same time the silly thing and the spite of the man breaks out there and despair it. ”

a book close to the political allegory

“The book is close to the political allegory. Quinzinzinzili confirms the original thought, very pessimistic in spite of its sour humor, of Governed Messac. ”

a tone, the corrosive one, pace

“Régis Messac frankly often laughs in full catastrophe. This excellent small novel, very nicely removed, date of 1934. It has a tone, the corrosive one, pace. With Governed Messac, one discovers (or redécouvre) one of large of the French science fiction. ”

After the end of the world

“Messac, with much of irony, described the process of nasalisation of the new language. Bits of education form the bottom of it. ”

Cynicism and despair

“Far from its anarchistic convictions, the table brushed here Messac conveys especially a despair and a cynicism which lets hope for few things of the human being, the revenge of nature on the culture, all in all…”

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Surprising and funny

“It is a very short novel, 177 pages, rough, without concession on the human nature, the narrator is not saved more than the other protagonists. (...) It is surprising and, in spite of a party taken dark, often very funny. Novelist partially (completely?) forgotten, it deserves our attention. ”

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a cry of alarm of an astonishing modernity

“The novel does not cross the course of the absolute nihilism. It offers a mirror in which humanity can be recognized in all its stupid lowness and narrow-mindedness. (...) Quinzinzinzili remains the cry of alarm of an astonishing modernity of pacifist convinced, of a man right who finally was not heard. ”

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a model rather coherent and successful

Quinzinzinzili is a curious work, which shows certain things become true thereafter. Messac could not envisage all diplomatic subtleties, but its model of second world war rather coherent and was successful.

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