PORTRAIT – The American publishes an astonishing novel set in the southwest of France within an environmentalist community infiltrated by a former FBI agent. Bright.
Bret Easton Ellis, Louise Erdrich, Hernan Diaz are some of the authors that the latest novel by the American Rachel Kushner, The Lake of Creationexcited, seduced, delighted. Everyone underlined the success of a fictional enterprise which was not obvious on paper: recounting the way in which a former FBI agent managed to infiltrate a community of eco-activists established in the south-west of France. in order to push them to radicalize and commit criminal acts. A thriller side, therefore, but also a philosophical reflection, since at the head of the Mill is a certain Bruno, a guru who has retreated into a cave and only communicates by email with his flock.
A man who was a child during the Second World War, which is not insignificant. Who was then close to the situationist Guy Debord, but whose obsession remains with studying the past, prehistory, to better imagine the future. Bruno is the man…
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