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The ugly side of superheroes What if you suddenly had superpowers?
What would you do? How would your friends and family react? What
would your obligations to society be? The superheroes' first
missions- combating terrorists or rescuing disaster victims- are a
boon to France. Yet while these actions bring the country pride,
unity quickly starts to unravel. These superheroes, ultimately, are
human. Paparazzi are everywhere. One has an affair with another's
wife. Another questions following the government's imperialist
agenda. Meanwhile the public carps on social media. Molia takes our
fascination with superheroes and adds a cutting portrayal of
contemporary social mores to create an entertaining and disturbing
work with deep dystopian underpinnings.
The end of the world is the least of the problems facing Gaspard
Boisvert, erstwhile advisor to "the stupidest American president in
history," when he discovers that he may share the genes of a
certain, infamous Austrian corporal, thanks to a dalliance on the
part of his grandmother during the First World War. Around the
hapless Gaspard's descent into amnesia and anti-social rebellion,
an obsessive-compulsive narrator assembles 111 pithy chapters
linked by the ultimate theme of all: the coming apocalypse. In this
deadpan anti-novel, statistics and historical data are marshalled,
and the divagations range over subjects as various as the history
of religions, Viagra, vegetarianism and dietary taboos, aerial
bombing, the Maltese national anthem, categories of suicide,
varieties of stupidity, bathtubs, the critical density of the
universe, pork and pigmen, and the etymology of the name Adolf.
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