Published on September 28, 2024 at 4:12 p.m. / Modified on September 28, 2024 at 8:14 p.m.
A Franco-American author now living in Berlin, Jennifer Richard has used her skills as a librarian to produce politically engaged and well-documented historical novels, notably This beautiful country is yours (Albin Michel, 2022), tragic fresco of the colonization of Africa. Nothing of the sort here, Jennifer Richard lets loose in a poignant fiction which dissects and questions with humor and gravity the perspectives of a life, if not biologically, at least numerically, infinite.
Céline, in her forties, is a freed woman busy making a career in a company producing documentary films. Her husband, Adrien, thrives in finance. He is obsessed with new technologies, a sort of convinced believer that it is enough to collect, save and transfer the data that constitutes us to build the new man. No half-measures: “Everything must disappear, to allow digital resurrection.” Adrien also sees in this digital survival a way of lightening the burden of old age, with algorithms providing an infinite form of life. Céline is not really convinced, she raises objections. But like all believers, her husband does not want to debate so much as to seduce and convince.
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