I continued my reading of his work with The Handmaid's Tale and this novel really impressed me.
How to describe it? Roman anticipation? Virulent criticism of religions? Reminder bases of feminism?
It's a bit all at once.
We share the "life" or rather the role of the woman in this new society has become a "matrix". After being reconditioned, its only mission to procreate. Far from any idea of romance or love (it has no right to exist does), it is no longer a body responsible for giving life.
I confess that reading shook me because this description of what could be our world is terrifying but not so far from us and this shift in the totalitarian extremism is something that completely freezes me.
The pace, slow, did we gradually return to the understanding of the horror of this world. And it comes out in disturbed, shaken.
An impressive reading!
