“We do not wake up not, after the containment, in a new world; it will be the same, a little worse,” says the author in a letter read out on France Inter.
For him, not “new world” after the crisis caused by the sars coronavirus : the writer Michel Houellebecq still perplexed in the face of this theory, and even makes the bet of a world “a little worse”. “I don’t believe for half a second to statements like ‘nothing will ever be as before’. On the contrary, everything will remain exactly the same,” says the author of The map and the territory, in a letter read on Monday on France Inter.
“We do not wake up not, after the containment, in a new world; it will be the same, a little worse,” insists the French writer contemporary the most widely read abroad. The outbreak of coronavirus, writes the novelist, “should have the main result of accelerating some of the changes in progress”, including, inter alia, “the reduction of human contact”.
“death may Never have been the discreet”
“The epidemic of coronavirus offers a wonderful rationale to this trend : a certain obsolescence that seems to hit the human relationships,” says Michel Houellebecq. “It would be equally wrong to say that we have rediscovered the tragic, death, finitude, etc.,” continues the writer, who scratched in his letter some writers confined in their secondary residence.
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While the epidemic of Covid-19 has caused the death of about 25 000 people in France, the writer says that “death may never have been discreet these last few weeks”. “The victims are summed up to a unit in the statistics of the dead daily, and the anxiety that spreads through the population as the total increases was something strangely abstract”, he says.
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“another number that will take a lot of importance in these weeks, the age of the patients. Until when is it appropriate to resuscitate and heal ? 70, 75, 80 years ?”, asks the novelist. “Never, in any case, there had been expressed with as calm immodesty, the fact that the life of everyone has not the same value,” says the author of the Submission.
