malville

History: In the seventies, our old twentieth century, the inhabitants of the planet earth and all living species are decimated, destroyed, wiped off the face of the globe. All but a few who by chance found themselves protected, which in a cave, which in a basement or in a metropolitan station. The consequences of this disaster caused by a bomb (or meteorite, there is no precision about it), presents flat survival conditions advanced primates.
Malvil This novel tells the story of this small group of seven people, obliged to accept the laws of community life are a few ideas and habits "before the bomb."
The adventures are going well from sharing food, the absolute need to defend against hordes of hungry too, but worse off.
A small democracy reinstates difficult, especially afraid of megalomania neighbor leader, she easily drift autocracy.

Author: Robert Merle wrote so that his story becomes "breastfeeding". Let me explain. Every detail counts in each page (a little more than five percent). What makes the progress slow playback, and indispensable for the understanding of a fact which may have seemed trivial a posteriori, or capital. I am surprised to drink me of the adventure, as if I drank the words of the foster father, the one through which passes the survival of the protagonists.
A plot smoothly conducted, with some effects handle (Emmanuel trial) delectable. On the substance, see comment.

Comments following the second reading of this intriguing novel, which seemed very jubilant at the base as the imagination of Robert Merle deceived me, I issue now some reservations.
Firstly with respect to its particular positioning against women. In this macho society, man becomes a hunter, gatherer and warrior, while the entire female gender for procreation (making good on the warrior's rest), occurs naturally in the kitchen or "ass cow". (Like "Me Tarzan, you Jane", exaggerating the line).
In the background repeatedly, religion, obviously Catholic to Malvil, occupies too large a place for my taste be honest. Man cornered the basics species survival of this "animal endowed with reason" (a Merle book) has you it needs to appoint as pastor, abbot and bishop to the mob blithely bathing in a democracy led by a strong man (Emmanuel Comte).
If so, I am very saddened, if not it gives me hope for the future.
On second thought, (and there is a big effort for me), this charming book first reading some problems with funds, but not evacuate moralistic certainties rooted share my European education to Christian predominance.
This notion of hunger and sharing is paradoxical and moved because it appeals to a screaming unreason lost between the need for survival and duty to overcome selfishness civilized primate. For most African there is no dilemma, because sharing is innate.
On the theme of the property, its defense by arms supposedly essential priori horrifies me. Of course I am not in a weak position, "... defend ideas okay ..." but without weapons. A utopia that transcends the bestial state to a more perfect human.