Iesinanepsi. Kretinodolye

A flipbook consisting of two novels by Régis Messac, a renowned French essayist, poet, and translator, and a participant in the Resistance who died in a German concentration camp. The novel «Iesinanepsi» continues the tradition of post-apocalyptic dystopias. But while the heroes of a classic tale about the end of the world do everything to survive, here the main protagonist (or even antihero) — miraculously surviving the dispersal of a lethal gas that exterminated almost the entire population of Earth during World War II — is passive and irresponsible. He observes indifferently and detachedly the degeneration of a handful of surviving children, who are building their primitive society. Translator Valery Kislov. In his latest work «Kretinodolye», Messac addresses the theme of distant exotic travels and scientific discoveries, but here too he reveals it in his own way. The expedition discovers a population of cretins — degenerate humanoid beings whose development has stalled at the Stone Age level on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean. The narrative is filled with deep despair and disappointment in humankind: how are you to love Man and believe in Man after what he has done and continues to do?