Madrapour

Madrapour is a novel of the writer French Robert Merle, published with the Éditions of the Threshold in 1976.

Summary

With the airport curiously deserted of Roissy-in-France, fifteen people embark in a charter bound for Madrapour. Cosmopolitan tourists, doubtful business men or characters will live together in a living room of first class of which the armchairs are laid out in circle.

The hostess makes a truncated advertisement: it is enough to start at the passengers a concern which changes into anguish when two Hindou S, the weapon with the fist, threaten to carry out the hostages one by one, if the plane does not land. But one realizes that the plane does not have a crew and that it is directed by the Earth. Appears then, in the destiny of the momentary , an invisible and very powerful character: ground.

Comment

Turning the back on the Science fiction, Robert Merle imagines a closed space where each character, on the way towards inaccessible Madrapour, carries with him all obsessions of our time but under the threat of a destiny which is closed again little by little on them. Admirable suspense, from beginning to end constant, certainly, but which nourishes a reflection on the wheel of the time to which no being does not escape.

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