First published in France in 1991, this ingenious anthropomorphic
fantasy draws disturbing parallels between the rigidly structured
"empire" in which ants work, multiply, make war, and survive and
the less ordered lives of their most dangerous predators: human
beings. Weber expertly weaves together weirdly beautiful
near-documentary descriptions of ant culture with the story of the
Wells family, Americans resettled in Paris, who ignore the orders
of their late Uncle Edmond (an entomological researcher, and author
of an idiosyncratic "encyclopedia" - from which we're given
snippets) to "Never go down into the cellar!" The mystery of their
subsequent disappearances, and of the fated encounter between human
and insect societies, is hidden within a mathematical puzzle whose
solution precipitates a thoroughly satisfying denouement. A tour de
force. (Kirkus Reviews)
Ants came to this planet long before man. Since then they have
developed one of the most intricate civilizations imaginable - a
civilization of great richness and technological brilliance. During
the few seconds it takes you to read this sentence, some 700
milli0on ants will be born on earth... Edmond Wells had studied
ants for years: he knew of the power which existed in their hidden
world. On his death, he leaves his apartment to his nephew Jonathan
with one proviso: that he must not descend beyond the cellar door.
But when the family's dog escapes down the cellar steps, Jonathan
has little alternative but to follow. Innocently he enters the
world of the ant, whose struggle for existence forces him to
reassess man's place in the cycle of nature. It is an experience
that will alter his life for ever... Empire of the Ants is an
extraordinary achievement. It takes you inside the ants' universe
and reveals it to be a highly organised world, as complex and
relentless as human society and even more brutal.
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