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- Herausgeber: BrightSummaries.com
- Kategorie: Bildung
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
What should we learn from 2084, this anticipation novel successor of 1984? Find out everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed book report.
You will find in this booklet:
- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Ati and Toz
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: the relationship with 1984, the political system of Abistan, totalitarianism based on religion and a criticism of radical Islam
A reference analysis to quickly understand the meaning of the work.
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BOUALEM SANSAL
ALGERIAN NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER AND ESSAYIST
•Born in 1949 in Theniet El Had (Algeria)
•Some of his works:
°The Oath of the Barbarians (1999), novel
°Dis-moi le paradis (2003), novel
°Darwin Street (2011), novel
Boualem Sansal was born in 1949 in an Algerian village. An engineer and economist by training, he worked as a teacher and consultant, ran his own business and worked at the Ministry of Industry in his country, from which he was dismissed in 2003 because of his criticism of the government. An avid reader, it was not until the 1990s that he began to write.
His works are all related to the culture of Islam, as the author questions the use of this religion today. He is censored in his own country because of his political stance, but has gained notoriety in Germany and France, where he has received numerous awards, was awarded the honorary title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2012, and was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon in 2013.
2084, THE END OF THE WORLD
A NEW 1984 IN THE ARAB WORLD
•Genre: novel
•Reference edition:2084. La fin du monde, Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Blanche », 2015, 288 p.
•1st edition: 2015
•Themes: totalitarianism, anticipation, religion, the single deity, revolt, lies, manipulation of history
Sansal's seventh novel, published in 2015, 2084 is a successor to 1984, the 1949 novel by George Orwell (English writer and journalist, 1903-1950). In 2084, the world is formed by a single country called Abistan, entirely governed by submission to the god Yölah and to Abi, his delegate. But Ati, the main character, begins to wonder about this perfect universe. Does the Frontier that everyone talks about really exist? Who are the Regs, bandits relegated to ghettos? Why does Nas, an archaeologist, mention a city that would have existed outside the control of the Machine that sees everything?
Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 2015, 2084 echoes the surge of religious radicalism taking place in the world.
SUMMARY
ATI'S DOUBTS
Ati, the main protagonist, does not ask himself many questions about the existence of his country, Abistan, about Yölah, his god, or about Abi, his delegate and prophet on earth. But, hospitalised in a sanatorium to treat tuberculosis, he has plenty of time to observe what is happening around him and, above all, to reflect. This is how doubts about everything around him creep in.
Never before has it occurred to him to question what he has learned so far. But he realises that the Holy War, by which the country justifies sending soldiers across the border, has no real purpose, since the citizens of Abistan don't even know what exists beyond those limits. Worse still, he understands that the religion in which he has lived since birth has gone astray: ritualised to the maximum to prevent the population from believing in any other god than Yölah, it forbids thinking for oneself and locks him into a collective, from which he feels he is becoming a miscreant.
