Why do the news meet so little success in France? This is a question that we are entitled to ask ourselves when we read the excellent collection of news and microfictions (his seventh) of the Israeli writer Etgar Keret, born in 1967, translated in around forty countries, excellent in writing brief, singular and impactful stories. There are 33 here, relate to parallel worlds, artificial intelligence, to metarerscomputer creatures, social networks, resurrection, extraterrestrialsin military service, war and God – the writer presents himself as an agnostic Jew. In reality, the stories of Etgar Keret, which take place for the most part a few decades in the future, speak of the couple, friendship, fraternity, hope and its opposite. Note that car accidents are not uncommon at home. It is dark in Keret but facing the chaos of life and the absurdity of death, it seems to tell us “laugh as long as it is time” with all these crazy people, these crazy families and these neurotic couples who do not master much. Keret is right: the future is no longer what it was. To better understand the trend of Keret (also a scriptwriter of comics and director) to place his characters in completely crazy situations where they are helpless, to marry humor in despair, note that he wrote this book during the COVVID (…)
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