“The Everything or Finally a Sensation of Order or The Last Days of Free Will or Unlimited Choice is Killing the World” (The Every), by Dave Eggers, translated from English (United States) by Juliette Bourdin, Gallimard, “From all over the world”, 640 p., €26, digital €15.
Here is a novel which, in its entirety, arises from an equation: C + j = T. “C” designates the Circle. Readers of Dave Eggers remember that the American writer had published a dystopia entitled like this, like the Internet juggernaut that he depicted. This Circle (Gallimard, 2016), which had started as a simple access provider in the San Francisco Bay area, had in a few years become a company capable of making all imaginable connections between social networks, banking data, personal emails, etc. in order to build a data warehouse that would make all secret police pale in comparison. And allowing an almost complete reconstruction of the history of individuals.
-Almost. Because something was missing in the bosom of “C”. It was missing “j », and “e-commerce giant named after a South American jungle” (any resemblance…). At the beginning of this new novel, clearly conceived as a sequel to the Circlethe latter bought “j” (in a rather burlesque context where the founder of the site, “distracted by his divorces and trials”was only “so happy to sell his shares and devote his time to space exploration with his fourth wife”). This acquisition made Cercle a dizzyingly powerful firm. To the point that the entity was renamed the Whole, “name which seemed absolute and inevitable in the eyes of its founders”as he suggested “ubiquity, the emergence of new ideas, interconnectivity”in a word “infinity”.
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